How to format your references using the Oncogene citation style

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

Smaglik P. Demographic shifts. Nature 2001; 414: 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reches M, Gazit E. Casting metal nanowires within discrete self-assembled peptide nanotubes. Science 2003; 300: 625–627.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conard NJ, Grootes PM, Smith FH. Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd. Nature 2004; 430: 198–201.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tao X, Avalos JL, Chen J, MacKinnon R. Crystal structure of the eukaryotic strong inward-rectifier K+ channel Kir2.2 at 3.1 A resolution. Science 2009; 326: 1668–1674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bannwarth H. Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps, Compressors and Systems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Tymieniecka A-T (ed.). The Enigma of Good and Evil; The Moral Sentiment in Literature. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Arendt-Nielsen L. Central Sensitization in Humans: Assessment and Pharmacology. In: Schaible H-G (ed). Pain Control. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015, pp 79–102.

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 Oncogene.

Blog post

Andrew E. Revealed For The First Time: Map Sheds Light On Dark Matter That Binds The Universe Together. IFLScience. 2015.

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. Maritime Administration: Efforts To Improve Data on the Federal Ship Financing Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wurster KW. Management matter? Effects of charcoal production management on woodland regeneration in Senegal. 2010.

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

Kishkovsky S. Honor a Literary Giant, But Be Careful Where. New York Times. 2008; : A10.

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	Oncogene
ISSN (online)	1476-5594
Scope