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

Cripton PA. Perspective: Protecting the neck. Nature. 2013 Nov;503(7475):S13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huang Z, Li X. Origin of flaw-tolerance in nacre. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Iwamoto M, Matsunaga S, Oiki S. Paradoxical one-ion pore behavior of the long β-helical peptide of marine cytotoxic polytheonamide B. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan;4:3636.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fang Y, Song YQ, Zhou WP, Zhao R, Tang RJ, Yang H, et al. Large magnetoelectric coupling in Co4Nb2O9. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan;4:3860.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blair TH. Energy Production Systems Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Masys AJ, editor. Exploring the Security Landscape: Non-Traditional Security Challenges. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Trybulec A. Mizar. In: Wiedijk F, editor. The Seventeen Provers of the World: Foreword by Dana S. Scott. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006; pp 20–3.

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. Supergiant Gas Field In The Mediterranean Doubles Size Record [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/supergiant-gas-field-mediterranean-doubles-size-record/

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. Space Acquisitions: Committing Prematurely to the Transformational Satellite Program Elevates Risks for Poor Cost, Schedule, and Performance Outcomes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

James M. Numerical Study of Plateau-Rayleigh Instability. 2014

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

Baker P, Gordon MR. Kerry Becomes Chief Advocate For U.S. Attack. New York Times. 2013 Aug;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

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