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

van der Hilst RD. Geophysics. Changing views on Earth’s deep mantle. Science 2004; 306: 817–818.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lobell DB, Asner GP. Climate and management contributions to recent trends in U.S. agricultural yields. Science 2003; 299: 1032.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalas P, Liu MC, Matthews BC. Discovery of a large dust disk around the nearby star AU Microscopii. Science 2004; 303: 1990–1992.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cho H, Mu J, Kim JK, Thorvaldsen JL, Chu Q, Crenshaw EB 3rd et al. Insulin resistance and a diabetes mellitus-like syndrome in mice lacking the protein kinase Akt2 (PKB beta). Science 2001; 292: 1728–1731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ness L. Securing Utility and Energy Infrastructures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

Cebulla M (ed.). Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2007 Workshop Reader: ECOOP 2007 Workshops, Berlin, Germany, July 30-31, 2007, Final Reports. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Matos M, Dimitrovski A. Case Studies Using Fuzzy Equivalent Annual Worth Analysis. In: Kahraman C (ed). Fuzzy Engineering Economics with Applications. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, pp 83–95.

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

Luntz S. The Pentagon Has A Zombie Apocalypse Emergency Plan. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/pentagon-has-zombie-apocalypse-emergency-plan/ (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. Radio Communications: Congressional Action Needed to Ensure Agencies Collaborate to Develop a Joint Solution. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Allen RT. Exploring the Lived Experiences of Program Managers Regarding an Automated Logistics Environment. 2014.

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

Chapman MM. This Time, Fiat Chrysler Workers Approve Contract. New York Times. 2015; : B3.

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

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