How to format your references using the Oncology and Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oncology and Therapy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Schiermeier Q. Enhanced advisory role urged for former EU nuclear labs. Nature. 2000;406:225.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Thiele A, Stoner G. Neuronal synchrony does not correlate with motion coherence in cortical area MT. Nature. 2003;421:366–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Johnson ZL, Cheong C-G, Lee S-Y. Crystal structure of a concentrative nucleoside transporter from Vibrio cholerae at 2.4 Å. Nature. 2012;483:489–93.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Iwai M, Pack C-G, Takenaka Y, Sako Y, Nakano A. Photosystem II antenna phosphorylation-dependent protein diffusion determined by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Yukihara EG, McKeever SWS. Optically Stimulated Luminescence. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Ralyté J, Brinkkemper S, Henderson-Sellers B, editors. Situational Method Engineering: Fundamentals and Experiences: Proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, 12–14 September 2007, Geneva, Switzerland. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bellout H, Bloom F. Attractors for Incompressible Bipolar and Non-Newtonian Flows: Bounded Domains and Space Periodic Problems. In: Bloom F, editor. Incompressible Bipolar and Non-Newtonian Viscous Fluid Flow. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 347–433.

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 Oncology and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Bones of Gorilla-Sized Lemur Found in Underwater Graveyard. IFLScience. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Air Traffic Control: FAA Reports Progress in System Acquisitions, but Changes in Performance Measurement Could Improve Usefulness of Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Dec. Report No.: GAO-08-42.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Abraham SR. Using Self-Monitoring and Goal Setting to Increase Swimming in Adults [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2015.

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

1. Kercher S. Mothers Becoming Fast Friends, With a Swipe. New York Times. 2017 May 10;D10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Oncology and Therapy
Abbreviation	Oncol. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2366-1070
ISSN (online)	2366-1089
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