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

John P: Applied physics. Toward diamond lasers. Science 292: 1847–1848, 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blunier T and Brook EJ: Timing of millennial-scale climate change in Antarctica and Greenland during the last glacial period. Science 291: 109–112, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phillips BL, Casey WH and Karlsson M: Bonding and reactivity at oxide mineral surfaces from model aqueous complexes. Nature 404: 379–382, 2000.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Erbse A, Schmidt R, Bornemann T, et al.: ClpS is an essential component of the N-end rule pathway in Escherichia coli. Nature 439: 753–756, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lin XS: Introductory Stochastic Analysis for Finance and Insurance: Lin/Introductory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

Fisher RB, Chen-Burger Y-H, Giordano D, Hardman L and Lin F-P: Fish4Knowledge: Collecting and Analyzing Massive Coral Reef Fish Video Data. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

De Meyts P: Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signal Transduction and the Molecular Basis of Signalling Specificity. In: Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: Structure, Functions and Role in Human Disease. Wheeler DL and Yarden Y (eds.) Springer, New York, NY, pp51–76, 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 Molecular and Clinical Oncology.

Blog post

Evans K: That “Guilty” Look That Your Dog Is Giving You Isn’t Actually Guilt. IFLScience, 2017.

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: Mass Transit: Challenges in Evaluating, Overseeing, and Funding Major Transit Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krepstekies C: News Media Representations of Women in the U.S. Military Post September 11, 2001., 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

Ember S: After 11 Years, The Huffington Post Will No Longer Be Run by Huffington. New York Times: B1, 2016.

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