How to format your references using the Oncology Reports citation style

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

Adam D: Plans for GM livestock fail the poor. Nature 411: 403, 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson AJ and Schoeman DS: Climate impact on plankton ecosystems in the Northeast Atlantic. Science 305: 1609–1612, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thulasiram HV, Erickson HK and Poulter CD: Chimeras of two isoprenoid synthases catalyze all four coupling reactions in isoprenoid biosynthesis. Science 316: 73–76, 2007.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Parikshak NN, Swarup V, Belgard TG, et al.: Author Correction: Genome-wide changes in lncRNA, splicing, and regional gene expression patterns in autism. Nature 560: E30, 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Furger C: Live Cell Assays. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

Tromeur-Dervout D, Brenner G, Emerson DR and Erhel J: Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2008: Parallel Numerical Methods, Software Development and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Solano-Aragón C and Castillo O: Optimization of Benchmark Mathematical Functions Using the Firefly Algorithm with Dynamic Parameters. In: Fuzzy Logic Augmentation of Nature-Inspired Optimization Metaheuristics: Theory and Applications. Castillo O and Melin P (eds.) Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp81–89, 2015.

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 Reports.

Blog post

Davis J: South Africa To Start Killing Buffalo And Hippos To Save Them From Starvation. 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: Patent Policy: Department of Commerce Involvement in Department of Energy Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Arnold DM: An Examination of Job Satisfaction Among Full-Time Faculty in a Selected Mississippi Community College., 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

Vecsey G: U.S. Team Needs A Bradley or Two. New York Times: D1, 2010.

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 Reports
Abbreviation	Oncol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1021-335X
ISSN (online)	1791-2431
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Oncology