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

LaDue ND. Help to fight the battle for Earth in US schools. Nature. 2015;519(7542):131.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kippenberg TJ, Vahala KJ. Cavity optomechanics: back-action at the mesoscale. Science. 2008;321(5893):1172-1176.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hamano K, Abe Y, Genda H. Emergence of two types of terrestrial planet on solidification of magma ocean. Nature. 2013;497(7451):607-610.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pfreundt U, Kopf M, Belkin N, Berman-Frank I, Hess WR. The primary transcriptome of the marine diazotroph Trichodesmium erythraeum IMS101. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6187.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Birke D. Social Networks and Their Economics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Kalra MK, Saini S, Rubin GD, eds. MDCT: From Protocols to Practice. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Pelikan M, Goldberg DE. Hierarchical Bayesian Optimization Algorithm. In: Pelikan M, Sastry K, CantúPaz E, eds. Scalable Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer; 2006:63-90.

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. When It Comes To Nature’s Public Enemy Number One, The Mosquito Is A Modern Monster. 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. Payments in Lieu of Taxes for Federal Property. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williams K. From Cribs to Crayons: A Study on the Use of Universal Curriculum and Assessment of Preschool Students and Teachers in the Classroom. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 2016.

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

Schembari J. Factory Masterpieces. New York Times. September 4, 2017:TR1.

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

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