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. Kerr RA. EARTH SCIENCE: Did Volcanoes Drive Ancient Extinctions? Science. 2000;289:1130–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Reya T, Clevers H. Wnt signalling in stem cells and cancer. Nature. 2005;434:843–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hoffmann KF, Brindley PJ, Berriman M. Medicine. Halting harmful helminths. Science. 2014;346:168–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hafez IH, Berber MR, Fujigaya T, Nakashima N. Enhancement of platinum mass activity on the surface of polymer-wrapped carbon nanotube-based fuel cell electrocatalysts. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6295.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Goria S. Methods and Tools for Creative Competitive Intelligence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Menoni S, Margottini C, editors. Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation. Milano: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Greene AK. Epidemiology and Morbidity of Lymphedema. In: Greene AK, Slavin SA, Brorson H, editors. Lymphedema: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 33–44.

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. Luntz S. Planet Found Orbiting Two Stars In the Habitable Zone [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/planet-found-orbiting-two-stars-habitable-zone/

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. Aviation Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Could Benefit from Improved Planning and Controls. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Nov. Report No.: GAO-06-203.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cisewski J. Generalized fiducial inference for mixed linear models [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2012.

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. Kishkovsky S. Dmitri Prigov, 66, Poet Who Challenged Soviet Authority. New York Times. 2007 Jul 20;A21.

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