How to format your references using the Oncology Signaling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oncology Signaling. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Corden JL. Transcription. Seven ups the code. Science. 2007;318(5857):1735-1736.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin OY, Hosken DJ. The evolution of reproductive isolation through sexual conflict. Nature. 2003;423(6943):979-982.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burke M, Hsiang SM, Miguel E. Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production. Nature. 2015;527(7577):235-239.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hameed UFS, Lim J, Zhang Q, Wasik MA, Yang D, Swaminathan K. Transcriptional repressor domain of MBD1 is intrinsically disordered and interacts with its binding partners in a selective manner. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4896.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldstein LSB, Schneider M. Stem Cells for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Weist MD, Lever NA, Bradshaw CP, Owens JS, eds. Handbook of School Mental Health: Research, Training, Practice, and Policy. 2nd ed. 2014. Springer US; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu ZY, Yoo YJ, Hwang I. ABA Conjugates and Their Physiological Roles in Plant Cells. In: Zhang DP, ed. Abscisic Acid: Metabolism, Transport and Signaling. Springer Netherlands; 2014:77-87.

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 Signaling.

Blog post

Andrew E. Are You Overweight? The Clue’s In Your Poo. IFLScience. March 10, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-you-overweight-clue-s-your-poo/

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. Telecommunications: Competition in the Cellular Telephone Service Industry. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jategaonkar SP. Two Essays on Stock Repurchases and Insider Trading. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2009.

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

Wagner J. Security in Stands Is Criticized After Clash. New York Times. March 13, 2017:D7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Signaling
ISSN (print)	2542-5633
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