How to format your references using the Molecular and Clinical Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular and Clinical 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

Kadanoff LP: Kenneth Geddes Wilson (1936-2013). Nature 500: 30, 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pouille F and Scanziani M: Enforcement of temporal fidelity in pyramidal cells by somatic feed-forward inhibition. Science 293: 1159–1163, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Muheim R, Phillips JB and Akesson S: Polarized light cues underlie compass calibration in migratory songbirds. Science 313: 837–839, 2006.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xie W-Z, Yan C, Ying X-Y, et al.: Domain-specific hedonic deficits towards social affective but not monetary incentives in social anhedonia. Sci Rep 4: 4056, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gasser W, Heiner E and Elk K: Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- und Vielteilchenphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Gaisbauer HP, Schweiger G and Sedmak C: Philosophical Explorations of Justice and Taxation: National and Global Issues. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Seo S-J: Teaching Efficacy Belief as a New Paradigm for Teacher Career Development and Professionalism in Korea. In: Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Teacher Self-Efficacy. Garvis S and Pendergast D (eds.) SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp53–69, 2016.

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 Molecular and Clinical Oncology.

Blog post

Taub B: Human Brains Are Structurally The Same As Non-Human Primate Brains. IFLScience, 2016.

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: School Facilities: States’ Financial and Technical Support Varies. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Penney G: Executive Fire Officers’ strategic thinking capabilities and their relationship with information and communication technology., 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

McKINLEY JC Jr: 21 Years After Businessman’s Murder, His Wife and Her Brother Are Arrested. New York Times: A18, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Molecular and Clinical Oncology
Abbreviation	Mol. Clin. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	2049-9450
ISSN (online)	2049-9469
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology