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

Grinnell F: Rethink our approach to assessing risk. Nature 522: 257, 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilga CD and Lauder GV: Biomechanics: hydrodynamic function of the shark’s tail. Nature 430: 850, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giulini A, Wang J and Jackson D: Control of phyllotaxy by the cytokinin-inducible response regulator homologue ABPHYL1. Nature 430: 1031–1034, 2004.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang M, Bao W-J, Wang J, Wang K, Xu J-J, Chen H-Y and Xia X-H: A green approach to the synthesis of novel “Desert rose stone”-like nanobiocatalytic system with excellent enzyme activity and stability. Sci Rep 4: 6606, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Family Firm Institute, Inc.: Family Enterprise. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

Monastyrsky MI: Topology in Molecular Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Chien C-W, Chen S-J and Chen J-L: Designing “Hometown Feeling” Into Products. In: Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Practice, and Case Studies: 5th International Conference, CCD 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Rau PLP (ed.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp41–50, 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

Taub B: NASA’s Pumpkin Carving Contest Is Out Of This World. 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: Student Financial Aid: Data Not Fully Utilized to Identify Inappropriately Awarded Loans and Grants. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vincent C: Viewing Dissociative Identity Disorder through a Jungian lens., 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

Detrick B: Where Nobody Knows Your Name. New York Times: D13, 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