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

Hanushek EA. Education. Building on No Child Left Behind. Science 2009; 326: 802–803.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmiedmayer J, Berges J. Physics. Cold atom cosmology. Science 2013; 341: 1188–1189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hirata A, Klein BJ, Murakami KS. The X-ray crystal structure of RNA polymerase from Archaea. Nature 2008; 451: 851–854.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Turner RE, Baustian JJ, Swenson EM, Spicer JS. Wetland sedimentation from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Science 2006; 314: 449–452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coutts J. Loft Conversions. Blackwell Publishing Ltd: Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

Fournais S. Spectral Methods in Surface Superconductivity. Birkhäuser: Boston, MA, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Gepts P, Aragão FJL, Barros E de, Blair MW, Brondani R, Broughton W et al. Genomics of Phaseolus Beans, a Major Source of Dietary Protein and Micronutrients in the Tropics. In: Moore PH, Ming R (eds). Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants. Springer: New York, NY, 2008, pp 113–143.

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

Andrews R. Virtual Maze Test Predicts Likelihood Of Getting Alzheimer’s Disease. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/brain/virtual-maze-test-predicts-likelihood-getting-alzheimers-disease/ (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. Tax System Modernization: Attention to Critical Issues Can Bring Success. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Szurgyi AA. Leadership competencies required of Army officers to counter the Improvised Explosive Device threat. 2012.

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

Bosman J, Harmon A, Hauser C, Bidgood J, Astor M. Friends and Relatives Share Memories About the Las Vegas Shooting Victims. New York Times. 2017; : A18.

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