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

Landry CR. Cell biology. A cellular roadmap for the plant kingdom. Science 2011; 333: 532–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Engelhardt KA, Ritchie ME. Effects of macrophyte species richness on wetland ecosystem functioning and services. Nature 2001; 411: 687–689.

A journal article with 3 authors

Plerou V, Gopikrishnan P, Stanley HE. Econophysics: Two-phase behaviour of financial markets. Nature 2003; 421: 130.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mosher RA, Melnyk CW, Kelly KA, Dunn RM, Studholme DJ, Baulcombe DC. Uniparental expression of PolIV-dependent siRNAs in developing endosperm of Arabidopsis. Nature 2009; 460: 283–286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stephans RA. System Safety for the 21 st Century. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

Irving HR, Gehring C (eds.). Plant Signaling Peptides. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Ustin SL, Riaño D, Koltunov A, Roberts DA, Dennison PE. Mapping Fire Risk in Mediterranean Ecosystems of California: Vegetation type, Density, Invasive Species, and Fire Frequency. In: Chuvieco E (ed). Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, pp 41–53.

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

Hale T. Secret Air Force Space Plane Remains A Mystery After 500-Day Orbit. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/space/secret-air-force-space-plane-remains-a-mystery-after-500day-orbit/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Comments on H.R. 6228. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Young JL. A community college’s loss of accreditation: A case study. 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

Hollander S. Behind an Outsize Court Case, Two Everyday Tenants. New York Times. 2009; : CY5.

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