How to format your references using the Oncology Research and Treatment citation style

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

Scholze M. Earth network. Nature. 2007 May;447(7141):228.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hill RS, Walsh CA. Molecular insights into human brain evolution. Nature. 2005 Sep;437(7055):64–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuch BB, Li H, Johnson AD. Evolution of eukaryotic transcription circuits. Science. 2008 Mar;319(5871):1797–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Daniel JA, Santos MA, Wang Z, Zang C, Schwab KR, Jankovic M, et al. PTIP promotes chromatin changes critical for immunoglobulin class switch recombination. Science. 2010 Aug;329(5994):917–23.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang L, Tan KC. Modern Industrial Automation Software Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Chen J, Xu ZC, Xu X-M, Zhang JH, editors. Animal Models of Acute Neurological Injuries. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Burns JA. Laser Applications for Nonmalignant Conditions of the Larynx. In: Wong BJ-F, Ilgner J, editors. Biomedical Optics in Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery. New York, NY: Springer; 2016; pp 67–78.

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 Research and Treatment.

Blog post

Andrew E. Could Megalodon Still Live In The Deep Ocean? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Jun

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. Special Education: More Flexible Spending Requirement Could Mitigate Unintended Consequences While Protecting Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Minick V. Educators’ Beliefs About and Approaches to the Evaluation of Student Writing. 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

Atkinson S, Davey M. Manslaughter Is Charge for 5 In Flint Crisis. New York Times. 2017 Jun;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Research and Treatment
Abbreviation	Oncol. Res. Treat.
ISSN (print)	2296-5270
ISSN (online)	2296-5262
Scope	Cancer Research Hematology Oncology