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

Kreeger K. Location, location, location. Nature 421(6924), 766–767 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapiro RB, Ossorio PN. Research ethics. Regulation of online social network studies. Science 339(6116), 144–145 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

AbdAlla S, Lother H, Quitterer U. AT1-receptor heterodimers show enhanced G-protein activation and altered receptor sequestration. Nature 407(6800), 94–98 (2000).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim K-H, Kumar B, Lee KY et al. Piezoelectric two-dimensional nanosheets/anionic layer heterojunction for efficient direct current power generation. Sci. Rep. 3, 2017 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pohl J. Building Science. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK (2011).

An edited book

Kruys J. Sharing RF Spectrum with Commodity Wireless Technologies: Theory and Practice. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2011).

A chapter in an edited book

Koestler DC, Houseman EA. Model-Based Clustering of DNA Methylation Array Data. In: Computational and Statistical Epigenomics. Teschendorff AE (Ed.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 91–123 (2015).

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

Luntz S. ‘Oxytocin-Lowering Medical Conditions May Reduce Empathy’ (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/oxytocin-lowering-medical-condition-may-reduce-empathy/.

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. Investing in the Very Young, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1988).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sexton SM. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, (2017).

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

Vecsey G. A Whirlwind Start For St. John’s and Lavin, (2010).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

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