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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Atkinson PM: Assess the real cost of research assessment. Nature 516: 145, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moine H and Mandel JL: Biomedicine. Do G quartets orchestrate fragile X pathology? Science 294: 2487–2488, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tosca NJ, Knoll AH and McLennan SM: Water activity and the challenge for life on early Mars. Science 320: 1204–1207, 2008.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cortez D, Guntuku S, Qin J and Elledge SJ: ATR and ATRIP: partners in checkpoint signaling. Science 294: 1713–1716, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keene A: Keene on the Market. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

Baron Esquivias G and Asteggiano R: Cardiac Management of Oncology Patients: Clinical Handbook for Cardio-Oncology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Huseynova SA, Mahmudov H and Mustafayev II: Photochemical Decomposition of Hydrogen Sulphide in the Gas Mixtures and Generation Molecular Hydrogen. In: Black Sea Energy Resource Development and Hydrogen Energy Problems. Veziroğlu A and Tsitskishvili M (eds.) Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp47–53, 2013.

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

O`Callaghan J: We Spoke To The Man Who Started The Hunt For Intelligent Alien Life. IFLScience, 2017.

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: Achievements, Cost, and Administration of the Ocean Sediment Coring Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bernstine JT: Experiences of Students Transferring from Community and Technical Colleges to a Private Nonprofit University., 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

Prochnik G: Our Freudian Complex. New York Times: BR1, 2017.

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