How to format your references using the Rare Cancers and Therapy citation style

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

1. McCabe H. France sets up elite Internet school. Nature. 2000;405:381.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Singleton AB, Traynor BJ. Genetics. For complex disease genetics, collaboration drives progress. Science. 2015;347:1422–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chih B, Engelman H, Scheiffele P. Control of excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation by neuroligins. Science. 2005;307:1324–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Crisp MD, Arroyo MTK, Cook LG, Gandolfo MA, Jordan GJ, McGlone MS, et al. Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale. Nature. 2009;458:754–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cruz MG, Peters GW, Shevchenko PV. Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Pawankar R, Holgate ST, Rosenwasser LJ, editors. Allergy Frontiers: Diagnosis and Health Economics. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ramaekers S, Suissa J. Rights, Needs and Duties. In: Suissa J, editor. The Claims of Parenting: Reasons, Responsibility and Society. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 99–123.

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 Rare Cancers and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Perfectly Pink Dolphin Looks Like Something From A Fairytale [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/magical-pink-dolphin/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Flexible Funding Continues to Play a Role in Supporting State and Local Transportation Priorities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Nov. Report No.: GAO-13-19R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cao L. A Field-Scale Simulation of the Reversible Nanoparticle Adsorption for Enhancing Oil Recovery Using Hydrophilic Nanofluids [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

1. Schmitt E. U.S. Says Its ISIS Fight Isn’t Raising Civilian Risks. New York Times. 2017 May 20;A5.

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	Rare Cancers and Therapy
ISSN (print)	2195-6014
ISSN (online)	2195-6022
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