How to format your references using the Molecular Oncology citation style

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

Hede K. Antibiotic resistance: An infectious arms race. Nature. 2014;509(7498):S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atkins JF, Gesteland RF. mRNA readout at 40. Nature. 2001;414(6865):693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Touboul M, Puchtel IS, Walker RJ. Tungsten isotopic evidence for disproportional late accretion to the Earth and Moon. Nature. 2015;520(7548):530–533.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Huang W, Ma K, Zhang J, Qatanani M, Cuvillier J, Liu J, et al. Nuclear receptor-dependent bile acid signaling is required for normal liver regeneration. Science. 2006;312(5771):233–236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Šolín P. Partial Differential Equations and the Finite Element Method. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Moreira F, Arianoutsou M, Corona P, De las Heras J (eds.). Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Håkanson L, Bryhn AC. Operational Bioindicators for Coastal Management. In: Bryhn AC, editor. Tools and Criteria for Sustainable Coastal Ecosystem Management: Examples from the Baltic Sea and Other Aquatic Systems. 2008. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 125–158.

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 Oncology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Dinosaur-Like Features Appeared Millions Of Years Before Actual Dinosaurs. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurlike-features-appeared-millions-of-years-before-actual-dinosaurs/. Accessed 30 October 2018.

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. Air Traffic Control: Smaller Terminal Systems’ Capacity Requirements Need to Be Defined. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roth MM. Depositional Environment of the Carbonate Cap Rock at the Pine Prairie Field, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana: Implications of Salt Diapirism on Cook Mountain Reservoir Genesis. 2017.

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

Baker L. In Tacoma, A Residential Rebirth. New York Times. 2007;BU15.

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	Molecular Oncology
Abbreviation	Mol. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	1574-7891
ISSN (online)	1878-0261
Scope	Cancer Research Genetics Molecular Medicine General Medicine