How to format your references using the Oncogenesis citation style

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

Buffett BA. Tidal dissipation and the strength of the Earth’s internal magnetic field. Nature 2010; 468: 952–954.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fugmann SD, Schatz DG. Immunology. One AID to unite them all. Science 2002; 295: 1244–1245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matter N, Herrlich P, König H. Signal-dependent regulation of splicing via phosphorylation of Sam68. Nature 2002; 420: 691–695.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kuse Y, Ogawa K, Tsuruma K, Shimazawa M, Hara H. Damage of photoreceptor-derived cells in culture induced by light emitting diode-derived blue light. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 5223.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Girling P. Operational Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

Leder SB. The Yale Swallow Protocol: An Evidence-Based Approach to Decision Making. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Hurni H, Herweg K, Portner B, Liniger H. Soil Erosion and Conservation in Global Agriculture. In: Braimoh AK, Vlek PLG (eds). Land Use and Soil Resources. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008, pp 41–71.

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 Oncogenesis.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 2016: The year In Space And Astronomy. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/space/2016-the-year-in-space-and-astronomy/ (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. Space Acquisitions: Assessment of Overhead Persistent Infrared Technology Report. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roberson KL. Patient and Family Engagement Initiative: A Quantitative Causal-Comparative Analysis. 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

Greenhouse L. Justices Hear Case on Right To Choose Defense Counsel. New York Times. 2006; : A17.

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	Oncogenesis
Abbreviation	Oncogenesis
ISSN (online)	2157-9024
Scope	Cancer Research Molecular Biology