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

Gilmore G: Astronomy. The short spectacular life of a superstar. Science 304: 1915–1916, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feachem RGA and Medlin CA: Health is wealth. Nature 417: 695, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sweeney A, Jiggins C and Johnsen S: Insect communication: Polarized light as a butterfly mating signal. Nature 423: 31–32, 2003.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pighin JA, Zheng H, Balakshin LJ, et al.: Plant cuticular lipid export requires an ABC transporter. Science 306: 702–704, 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mahlberg R, Gilles A and Läsch A: Hämatologie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2004.

An edited book

Hashim H, Abrams P and Dmochowski R: The Handbook of Office Urological Procedures. Springer, London, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Ditcheva B and Dicheva D: Visual Browsing and Editing of Topic Map-Based Learning Repositories. In: Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps: Second International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2006, Leipzig, Germany, October 11-12, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Maicher L, Sigel A and Garshol LM (eds.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp44–55, 2007.

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: Shifting Wildlife Ranges Due To Climate Change Will Impact Health, People, And Culture. 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: Homeland Security: OMB’s Temporary Cessation of Information Technology Funding for New Investments. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alvarez DJ: Piloted simulation study comparing classical and robust flight control design methods., 2010.

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

Welles L and Leland J: Coney Island, Ever Changing. New York Times: MB7, 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