How to format your references using the Neuro-Oncology citation style

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

Clayton J. The promise of T. cruzi genomics. Nature. 2010;465(7301):S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jensen K, Murray F. Intellectual property. Enhanced: intellectual property landscape of the human genome. Science. 2005;310(5746):239-240.

A journal article with 3 authors

Collins FS, Morgan M, Patrinos A. The Human Genome Project: lessons from large-scale biology. Science. 2003;300(5617):286-290.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu P, Kang L, Mack NH, Schanze KS, Han X, Wang HL. Mechanistic understanding of surface plasmon assisted catalysis on a single particle: cyclic redox of 4-aminothiophenol. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2997.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Featherstone H, Holt E. Small Animal Ophthalmology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2011.

An edited book

Randell-Moon H, Tippet R, eds. Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality. Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kehl S. Morphology, Anatomy, and Physiological Aspects of Dytiscids. In: Yee DA, ed. Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Springer Netherlands; 2014:173-198.

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 Neuro-Oncology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. NASA Has Mapped Where Ice Could Be Hiding on Ceres. IFLScience. Published July 11, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-has-mapped-where-ice-could-be-hiding-on-ceres/

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. Aviation Research: Information on FAA’s Research, Engineering, and Development Program. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dunn DN. Non-Athlete Students’ Attitudes toward Student-Athletes: A Social Identity Approach. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 2015.

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

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Has Another Debt Worry on Horizon. New York Times. August 5, 2015:B1.

In-text citations

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

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	Neuro-Oncology
Abbreviation	Neuro. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	1522-8517
ISSN (online)	1523-5866
Scope	Cancer Research Clinical Neurology Oncology