How to format your references using the Oncology citation style

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

Hunt JH. Ecology. Cryptic herbivores of the rainforest canopy. Science. 2003 May;300(5621):916–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dangl JL, Jones JD. Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection. Nature. 2001 Jun;411(6839):826–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bard E, Hamelin B, Delanghe-Sabatier D. Deglacial meltwater pulse 1B and Younger Dryas sea levels revisited with boreholes at Tahiti. Science. 2010 Mar;327(5970):1235–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kohane IS, Mandl KD, Taylor PL, Holm IA, Nigrin DJ, Kunkel LM. Medicine. Reestablishing the researcher-patient compact. Science. 2007 May;316(5826):836–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maloberti F. Understanding Microelectronics. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2011.

An edited book

Alhazov A, Cojocaru S, Gheorghe M, Rogozhin Y, Rozenberg G, Salomaa A, editors. Membrane Computing: 14th International Conference, CMC 2013, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova, August 20-23, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Desprez F, Talia D, Yayhapour R. CoreGRID/ERCIM Workshop on Grids, Clouds and P2P Computing – CGWS2012. In: Caragiannis I, Alexander M, Badia RM, Cannataro M, Costan A, Danelutto M, et al., editors. Euro-Par 2012: Parallel Processing Workshops: BDMC, CGWS, HeteroPar, HiBB, OMHI, Paraphrase, PROPER, Resilience, UCHPC, VHPC, Rhodes Islands, Greece, August 27-31, 2012. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 34–5.

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.

Blog post

Luntz S. Kepler Telescope Back With New Exoplanet Discovery [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Dec

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. Transportation Security R&D: TSA and DHS Are Researching and Developing Technologies, but Need to Improve R&D Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sokolov CK. Teacher Engagement In Grades 4-8. 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

Murphy MJO. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times. 2015 May;C33.

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
Abbreviation	Oncology
ISSN (print)	0030-2414
ISSN (online)	1423-0232
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Oncology