How to format your references using the Oncoscience citation style

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

Blake DT. Neuroscience: how brains learn to control machines. Nature. 2012; 483: 284–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolf D, Goff SP. Embryonic stem cells use ZFP809 to silence retroviral DNAs. Nature. 2009; 458: 1201–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Usdin M, Guillerm M, Chirac P. Neglected tests for neglected patients. Nature. 2006; 441: 283–4.

A journal article with 14 or more authors

Tsai P-I, Course MM, Lovas JR, Hsieh C-H, Babic M, Zinsmaier KE, Wang X. PINK1-mediated phosphorylation of Miro inhibits synaptic growth and protects dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila. Sci Rep. 2014; 4: 6962.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heimann RB, Lehmann HD. Bioceramic Coatings for Medical Implants. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

Ebner M, Erenli K, Malaka R, Pirker J, Walsh AE, editors. Immersive Education: 4th European Summit, EiED 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XII, 137 p. 57 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Dyreson C, Jin H. A Synthetic, Trend-Based Benchmark for XPath. In: Chen L, Liu C, Liu Q, Deng K, editors. Database Systems for Advanced Applications: DASFAA 2009 International Workshops: BenchmarX, MCIS, WDPP, PPDA, MBC, PhD, Brisbane, Australia, April 20 - 23, 2009. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 35–48.

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 Oncoscience.

Blog post

Andrew E. Peak Athletic Performance Is Dependent On Sleep Cycle [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available 2018 Oct 30, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/peak-athletic-performance-dependent-sleep-cycle/

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. Federal Communications Commission: Provision for the Use of the 220-222 MHz Band by Private Land Mobile Radio Service and Final Rule. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Apr. Report No.: OGC-97-35.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chow BJ. Forming Infrastructural Materials by Mechanical Compaction of Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulants [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2016.

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

Sisario B. Head of Columbia Records Promoted to Lead Sony Music. New York Times. 2016; : B2.

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	Oncoscience
Abbreviation	Oncoscience
ISSN (online)	2331-4737
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