How to format your references using the Lung Cancer Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lung Cancer Management. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Drake N. How to catch a cloud. Nature. 522(7554), 115–116 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Vabulas RM, Hartl FU. Protein synthesis upon acute nutrient restriction relies on proteasome function. Science. 310(5756), 1960–1963 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaina N, Fink M, Lerosey G. Composite media mixing Bragg and local resonances for highly attenuating and broad bandgaps. Sci. Rep. 3, 3240 (2013).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Luchtmann M, Beuing O, Skalej M, et al. Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography in brain death. Sci. Rep. 4, 3659 (2014).

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Alexander M, Walkenbach J. 101 Ready-to-Use Excel® Macros. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Joussen AM, Gardner TW, Kirchhof B, Ryan SJ, editors. Retinal Vascular Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Webster LR. Methadone Side Effects: Constipation, Respiratory Depression, Sedation, Sleep-Disordered Breathing, and the Endocrine System. In: Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy. Cruciani RA, Knotkova H (Eds.), Springer, New York, NY, 39–49 (2013).

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Lung Cancer Management.

Blog post

Andrew E. Iodine Clock Reaction Will Dazzle You [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/iodine-clock-reaction-pretty-damn-awesome/.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Status of Implementation of GAO Recommendations on Evacuation of Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations and Patients and Residents of Health Care Facilities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Gimbel SI. Imaging frontal and medial temporal lobe interaction during memory retrieval and disentangling the effects of the default network. (2010).

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Saslow L. Design Teams Hired in Nassau Coliseum Project. New York Times, LI2 (2007).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Lung Cancer Management
Abbreviation	Lung Cancer Manag.
ISSN (print)	1758-1966
ISSN (online)	1758-1974
Scope	Oncology Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine