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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Gregory R. Reversing Rorschach. Nature. 2000; 404: 19.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor R, Forge A. Developmental biology. Life after deaf for hair cells? Science. 2005; 307: 1056–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ogata S, Li J, Yip S. Ideal pure shear strength of aluminum and copper. Science. 2002; 298: 807–11.

A journal article with 14 or more authors

Lin W, Frère CH, Karczmarski L, Xia J, Gui D, Wu Y. Phylogeography of the finless porpoise (genus Neophocaena): testing the stepwise divergence hypothesis in the northwestern Pacific. Sci Rep. 2014; 4: 6572.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Turner JE, Downing DJ, Bogard JS. Statistical Methods in Radiation Physics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Rosenberg D. Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Stephens M, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2007. XXXI, 472 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Biermann E, Ermel C, Taentzer G. Precise Semantics of EMF Model Transformations by Graph Transformation. In: Czarnecki K, Ober I, Bruel J-M, Uhl A, Völter M, editors. Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: 11th International Conference, MoDELS 2008, Toulouse, France, September 28 - October 3, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 53–67.

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

Fang J. Scientists Translate Dolphin Whistles [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available 2018 Oct 30, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-translate-dolphin-whistles/

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Nov. Report No.: GAO-06-199R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gage JD. An inconsistency-based approach for sensing assessment in unknown environments [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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

Sisario B. Star Time for a Boss Who Plays. New York Times. 2017; : C1.

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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