How to format your references using the memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology. 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

1. Nudo RJ. Rehabilitation: Boost for movement. Nature. 2015;527:314–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vaughn D, Strathmann RR. Predators induce cloning in echinoderm larvae. Science. 2008;319:1503.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schorlemmer D, Wiemer S, Wyss M. Variations in earthquake-size distribution across different stress regimes. Nature. 2005;437:539–42.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nelson CA 3rd, Zeanah CH, Fox NA, Marshall PJ, Smyke AT, Guthrie D. Cognitive recovery in socially deprived young children: the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Science. 2007;318:1937–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kivy P. Once-Told Tales. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Sakurai T, editor. The Hinode Mission. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cai S-G, Ouahsine A, Sergent P. Modelling Wave Energy Conversion of a Semi-submerged Heaving Cylinder. In: Ibrahimbegovic A, editor. Computational Methods for Solids and Fluids: Multiscale Analysis, Probability Aspects and Model Reduction. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 67–79.

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 memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Selective Killing Can Affect Elephants for Decades. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Maritime Transportation: Implications of Using U.S. Liquefied-Natural-Gas Carriers for Exports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Dec. Report No.: GAO-16-104.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Martinez J. Effective nonprofit collaborative networks [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2013.

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

1. Mueller B, Baker AL. Steep Drop in Gang Violence Pushed City Shootings Below 1,000 in 2016. New York Times. 2017 Jan 4;A17.

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	memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology
Abbreviation	Memo
ISSN (print)	1865-5041
ISSN (online)	1865-5076
Scope	Hematology Oncology