How to format your references using the Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy (RPOR). 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

Koen D. Time to make haste. Nature 2007;447(7147):1030.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wortmann UG., Chernyavsky BM. Effect of evaporite deposition on Early Cretaceous carbon and sulphur cycling. Nature 2007;446(7136):654–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavender KL., Davis RE., Owens WB. Mid-depth recirculation observed in the interior Labrador and Irminger seas by direct velocity measurements. Nature 2000;407(6800):66–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Milner JJ., Toma C., Yu B., et al. Erratum: Runx3 programs CD8+ T cell residency in non-lymphoid tissues and tumours. Nature 2018;554(7692):392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Todinov M. Reliability and Risk Models, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Ito J. Regenerative Medicine in Otolaryngology, Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Veronesi G. Thoracic Surgery. In: Spinoglio G, editor. Robotic Surgery: Current Applications and New Trends, Milano: Springer; 2015, p. 29–39.

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 Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Galaxies In the Early Universe Appear To Have Less Dark Matter Than Expected. IFLScience. Available in: https://www.iflscience.com/space/galaxies-in-the-early-universe-appear-to-have-less-dark-matter-than-expected/ [cited 10/30/2018].

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. FAA Computer Security: Recommendations to Address Continuing Weaknesses, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhao L. Modeling, Estimation and Approximation in Structured Models. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2017.

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

Kenigsberg B. Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry. New York Times 2017:C8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy
Abbreviation	Rep. Pract. Oncol. Radiother.
ISSN (print)	1507-1367
ISSN (online)	2083-4640
Scope	Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging