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

Strome S. Neuroscience. Toward reprogramming gonads to brains. Science 2011;331(6015):292–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bannard OM., Cyster JG. Immunology. When less signaling is more. Science 2012;336(6085):1120–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Efremov RG., Baradaran R., Sazanov LA. The architecture of respiratory complex I. Nature 2010;465(7297):441–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Katayama Y., Inamura Y., Mizutani T., Yamakata M., Utsumi W., Shimomura O. Macroscopic separation of dense fluid phase and liquid phase of phosphorus. Science 2004;306(5697):848–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Das JC. Power System Harmonics and Passive Filter Designs, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Kitamura Y., Edwards DB., Sitha C., Williams JH. The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia: Issues of Quality and Equity, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilding JPH. Intestinal lipase inhibitors. In: Wilding JPH, editor. Pharmacotherapy of Obesity, Basel: Birkhäuser; 2008, p. 47–57.

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

Andrew E. How Neurosurgeons Can Now Look At Your Brain Through Your Eyes. IFLScience. Available in: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-neurosurgeons-can-now-look-your-brain-through-your-eyes/ [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. A List of Selected GAO Publications Containing Checklists or Guidance on Computer Software Topics, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warfield BS. Speaking of the Self: Theorizing the Dialogical Dimensions of Ethical Agency. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 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

Kelly D. Man of War. New York Times 2014:BR11.

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