How to format your references using the Molecular Cancer Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Erwin D. A call to the custodians of deep time. Nature. 2009;462:282–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Green CS, Bavelier D. Action video game modifies visual selective attention. Nature. 2003;423:534–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kushiro T, Nambara E, McCourt P. Hormone evolution: The key to signalling. Nature. 2003;422:122.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mangone M, Manoharan AP, Thierry-Mieg D, Thierry-Mieg J, Han T, Mackowiak SD, et al. The landscape of C. elegans 3’UTRs. Science. 2010;329:432–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisswanger H. Enzymkinetik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Fastl H. Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models. Zwicker E, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Pfeiffer F. Dynamics of Hydraulic Systems. In: Pfeiffer F, editor. Mechanical System Dynamics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. page 187–212.

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 Cancer Therapeutics.

Blog post

Luntz S. Population Of Humans Found To Have Adapted To Arsenic [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/population-found-adapted-arsenic/

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Flexibility in Federal-Aid Funding Essential to Highway Program Restructuring. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Dec. Report No.: T-RCED-91-4.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McGary J. Gender and the poverty-conflict trap [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

Kelly K. Achieving Techno-Literacy. New York Times. 2010;MM21.

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 Cancer Therapeutics
Abbreviation	Mol. Cancer Ther.
ISSN (print)	1535-7163
ISSN (online)	1538-8514
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology