How to format your references using the Onkologie citation style

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

Piran T. Astronomy. Demotion looms for gamma-ray bursts. Science. 2002 Feb;295(5557):986–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kilpatrick AM, Ives AR. Species interactions can explain Taylor’s power law for ecological time series. Nature. 2003 Mar;422(6927):65–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoffman BD, Grashoff C, Schwartz MA. Dynamic molecular processes mediate cellular mechanotransduction. Nature. 2011 Jul;475(7356):316–23.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ceylan H, Ozgit-Akgun C, Erkal TS, Donmez I, Garifullin R, Tekinay AB, et al. Size-controlled conformal nanofabrication of biotemplated three-dimensional TiO₂ and ZnO nanonetworks. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fant KM. Logically Determined Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

White C, editor. The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives. New York, NY: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Lopes N, Ribeiro B. Support Vector Machines (SVMs). In: Ribeiro B, editor. Machine Learning for Adaptive Many-Core Machines - A Practical Approach. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 85–105.

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 Onkologie.

Blog post

Andrew E. Rosetta Scientists Optimistic Philae Could Wake Up Early Next Year [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Dec [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-scientists-optimistic-philae-could-wake-early-next-year/

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. Analysis of Replacing Existing DOA Computer System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lummus S. Perceptions of required leadership behaviors for nurse leaders as measured by the Leadership Practices Inventory. 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

Walsh MW, Davey M. Detroit Clears Crucial Hurdle on Bankruptcy. New York Times. 2014 Sep;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	Onkologie
ISSN (print)	0378-584X
ISSN (online)	1423-0240
Scope