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

Kreeger K. Does travel broaden the scientific mind? Nature. 2002 Oct;419(6908):5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson EA, Janssens IA. Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change. Nature. 2006 Mar;440(7081):165–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Friis EM, Pedersen KR, Crane PR. Fossil evidence of water lilies (Nymphaeales) in the Early Cretaceous. Nature. 2001 Mar;410(6826):357–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Banerjee-Ghosh K, Ben Dor O, Tassinari F, Capua E, Yochelis S, Capua A, et al. Separation of enantiomers by their enantiospecific interaction with achiral magnetic substrates. Science. 2018 Jun;360(6395):1331–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weller RB, Hunter HJA, Mann MW. Clinical Dermatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Leal Filho W, editor. Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Haddad MR, Baazaoui H, Aufaure MA, Claramunt C, Lechevallier Y, Ghezala HB. Towards an Integration of Space and Accessibility in Web Personalization. In: Carswell JD, Fotheringham AS, McArdle G, editors. Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 9th International Symposium, W2GIS 2009, Maynooth, Ireland, December 7-8, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009; pp 39–55.

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

Hamilton K. Computers May Be Evolving But Are They Intelligent? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jun

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. Internal Control Weaknesses in Army Safeguarding of Computer Equipment. Washington, DC: 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

Tabak S. Aspiring States at the International Court of Justice. 2015

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

Stellin S. For Carry-On Bags, Size Is Just the Beginning. New York Times. 2013 Dec;TR4.

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