How to format your references using the Oncology Letters citation style

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

Bignami GF: A 1,000-year chain of thinkers. Nature 404: 227, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemmer P and Wrachtrup J: Physics. Where is my quantum computer? Science 324: 473–474, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li J, An J and Ting CS: Interaction-induced localization of mobile impurities in ultracold systems. Sci Rep 3: 3147, 2013.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dillehay TD, Ramírez C, Pino M, Collins MB, Rossen J and Pino-Navarro JD: Monte Verde: seaweed, food, medicine, and the peopling of South America. Science 320: 784–786, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balfour A: Solomon’s Temple. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

Gopalakrishnakone P, Corzo GA, de Lima ME and Diego-García E: Spider Venoms. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Hüsing T, Gareis K and Korte WB: The Impact of ICT on Social Cohesion: Looking Beyond the Digital Divide. In: The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe. Dutta S, Meyer AD, Jain A and Richter G (eds.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp75–123, 2006.

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 Letters.

Blog post

Andrew D: Here’s The Real Reason Your Friend’s “Gluten-Free” Diet Might Be Making Them Feel Better. IFLScience, 2016.

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: Federal Regulatory Policies. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meluzzi D: Computational Analysis of DNA Interactions to Investigate the Spatial Organization of Chromatin., 2013.

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

Walsh MW: As Puerto Rico Defaults, Eyes Turn to Washington. New York Times: B3, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Letters
Abbreviation	Oncol. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1792-1074
ISSN (online)	1792-1082
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology