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. Laughlin G. Astronomy: A Mars-sized exoplanet. Nature. 2015;522:290–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hartonen T, Alava MJ. How important tasks are performed: peer review. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1679.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kohl KP, Jones CD, Sekelsky J. Evolution of an MCM complex in flies that promotes meiotic crossovers by blocking BLM helicase. Science. 2012;338:1363–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kumar V, Chichili VPR, Zhong L, Tang X, Velazquez-Campoy A, Sheu F-S, et al. Structural basis for the interaction of unstructured neuron specific substrates neuromodulin and neurogranin with Calmodulin. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Levene M. An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Alpay D, Kirstein B, editors. Recent Advances in Inverse Scattering, Schur Analysis and Stochastic Processes: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to Lev Sakhnovich. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chakravarthy S, Jiang Q. MODELING CONTINUOUS QUERIES OVER DATA STREAMS. In: Chakravarthy S, editor. Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective: Modeling, Scheduling, Load Shedding, and Complex Event Processing. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009. p. 49–93.

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. Andrews R. New Superbug-Killing Antibiotic Found Hiding Inside Our Own Noses [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-superbug-killing-antibiotic-found-hiding-inside-noses/

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. Pipeline Safety: Status of Improving Oversight of the Pipeline Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Mar. Report No.: GAO-02-517T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Henry AG. Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neandertals and modern humans [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

1. Walsh MW. Judge Rejects Overhaul of Illinois’s Beleaguered State Pension System. New York Times. 2014 Nov 22;A10.

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