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

Grayson M. Science masterclass. Nature. 2010;467(7317):S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buehler MJ, Gao H. Dynamical fracture instabilities due to local hyperelasticity at crack tips. Nature. 2006;439(7074):307–310.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nandal P, Ravella SR, Kuhad RC. Laccase production by Coriolopsis caperata RCK2011: optimization under solid state fermentation by Taguchi DOE methodology. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1386.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hafting T, Fyhn M, Bonnevie T, Moser M-B, Moser EI. Hippocampus-independent phase precession in entorhinal grid cells. Nature. 2008;453(7199):1248–1252.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corley RHV, Tinker PB. The Oil Palm. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lakshmanan VI, Roy R, Ramachandran V (eds.). Innovative Process Development in Metallurgical Industry: Concept to Commission. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bitner-Gregersen EM, Eide LI, Hørte T, Skjong R. Summary of Past and Future Climate Change. In: Eide LI, Hørte T, Skjong R, editors. Ship and Offshore Structure Design in Climate Change Perspective. 2013. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 39–41.

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

Davis J. Is The Great Barrier Reef Really Dead? IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/is-the-great-barrier-reef-really-dead/. 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. Biotechnology: Backlog of Patent Applications. 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

Lutchman C. Leadership impact on turnover among power engineers in the Oil Sands of Alberta. 2008.

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

Stewart JB. How to Mend the Tax Code to Close Trump’s Loopholes. New York Times. 2016;B1.

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