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

Keil FC. Psychology. Science starts early. Science. 331(6020), 1022–1023 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Sandeep S, Ajayamohan RS. Origin of cold bias over the Arabian Sea in Climate Models. Sci. Rep. 4, 6403 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

van Groenigen KJ, Osenberg CW, Hungate BA. Increased soil emissions of potent greenhouse gases under increased atmospheric CO2. Nature. 475(7355), 214–216 (2011).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cawkwell MJ, Nguyen-Manh D, Woodward C, Pettifor DG, Vitek V. Origin of brittle cleavage in iridium. Science. 309(5737), 1059–1062 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins BR. Fundraising Law Made Easy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Aspinall PJ. The African Diaspora Population in Britain: Migrant Identities and Experiences. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Quintero OA, Moore JE, Yengo CM. Basics of the Cytoskeleton: Myosins. In: Cytoskeleton and Human Disease. Kavallaris M (Ed.), Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 73–100 (2012).

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

Andrews R. Cats And Dogs Remember Things In The Same Way. IFLScience (2017).

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. Federal Research Grants: Compensation Paid to Graduate Students at the University of California. 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

Dawood AA. Relationship between mental health and treatment seeking in an urban Muslim community. (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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. Arts, Briefly; Ukrainian Song Rewritten for Eurovision Contest. New York Times, E2 (2005).

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

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