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

Broz P. Immunology: Caspase target drives pyroptosis. Nature. 2015; 526: 642–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finke DL, Denno RF. Predator diversity dampens trophic cascades. Nature. 2004; 429: 407–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bruhn D, Groebner N, Kohlstedt DL. An interconnected network of core-forming melts produced by shear deformation. Nature. 2000; 403: 883–6.

A journal article with 14 or more authors

Urich T, Gomes CM, Kletzin A, Frazão C. X-ray Structure of a self-compartmentalizing sulfur cycle metalloenzyme. Science. 2006; 311: 996–1000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kay R. Statistical Thinking for Non-Statisticians in Drug Regulation. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Mansour N, Al-Shamrani S, editors. Science Education in the Arab Gulf States: Visions, Sociocultural Contexts and Challenges. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015. XXII, 244 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Cho H-S, Han Q-F, Kim H-G, Kim JY. Receiver-Based Adaptive Signal Control for Enhancing VoIP Speech Quality. In: Kim KJ, Wattanapongsakorn N, Joukov N, editors. Mobile and Wireless Technologies 2016. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 35–9.

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. Do 3D Films Make you Dizzy – or is it Just Your Imagination? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available 2018 Oct 30, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/do-3d-films-make-you-dizzy-or-it-just-your-imagination/

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. Higher Education: Experts Cited a Range of Requirements as Burdensome. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Apr. Report No.: GAO-13-371.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Simonsen AE. Risk and resilience: Girls’ experiences navigating space and relationships in a secure residential facility [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Gordon MR. U.S. Urges Iraqi Kurds To Put Off Referendum. New York Times. 2017; : A9.

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
Scope