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

Schoener TW. The newest synthesis: understanding the interplay of evolutionary and ecological dynamics. Science. 331(6016), 426–429 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Bilde-Sørensen JB, Schiøtz J. Materials science. Nanocrystals get twins. Science. 300(5623), 1244–1245 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Kimchi T, Xu J, Dulac C. A functional circuit underlying male sexual behaviour in the female mouse brain. Nature. 448(7157), 1009–1014 (2007).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hameed UFS, Lim J, Zhang Q, Wasik MA, Yang D, Swaminathan K. Transcriptional repressor domain of MBD1 is intrinsically disordered and interacts with its binding partners in a selective manner. Sci. Rep. 4, 4896 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kim Y-H. Sound Propagation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Fleischmann A. Subject-Oriented Business Process Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zanuttigh P, Marin G, Dal Mutto C, Dominio F, Minto L, Cortelazzo GM. Calibration. In: Time-of-Flight and Structured Light Depth Cameras: Technology and Applications. Marin G, Dal Mutto C, Dominio F, Minto L, Cortelazzo GM (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 117–159 (2016).

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. How the Parrot Got its Chat (and its Dance Moves) [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-parrot-got-its-chat-and-its-dance-moves/.

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. K-12 Education: Many Challenges Arise in Educating Students Who Change Schools Frequently. 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

Clark DK. Professional values: A study of education and experience in nursing students and nurses. (2009).

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

St. John Kelly E. Master of Her Cub Den at 82. New York Times, 148 (1999).

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