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

Tromans A. Entomology. The alkaloid defence. Nature. 2001;409(6816):28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckling A, Rainey PB. The role of parasites in sympatric and allopatric host diversification. Nature. 2002;420(6915):496-499.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zenisek D, Steyer JA, Almers W. Transport, capture and exocytosis of single synaptic vesicles at active zones. Nature. 2000;406(6798):849-854.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Leonov I, Poteryaev AI, Gornostyrev YN, et al. Electronic correlations determine the phase stability of iron up to the melting temperature. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5585.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins BR. Fundraising Law Made Easy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Al-Khayri JM, Jain SM, Johnson DV, eds. Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization: Volume 2: Asia and Europe. Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Capello R, Fratesi U. Space and Empirical Approaches to Regional Growth. In: Camagni R, Chizzolini B, Fratesi U, eds. Modelling Regional Scenarios for the Enlarged Europe: European Competiveness and Global Strategies. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer; 2008:49-67.

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

Andrew E. New Horizons Spots Possible Polar Ice Cap On Pluto. IFLScience.

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. Federal Communications Commission: International Settlement Rates. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Guillory MK. An Analysis of Corporal Punishment Practices in the State of Tennessee. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 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

Vecsey G. The Star Who Stood Out By Not Standing Out. New York Times. January 21, 2013:D1.

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