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

van Leeuwen JL. Plant science. Launched at 36,000g. Science 2010;329(5990):395–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Le Goff L., Lecuit T. Developmental biology. Phase transition in a cell. Science 2009;324(5935):1654–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore GWK., Holdsworth G., Alverson K. Climate change in the North Pacific region over the past three centuries. Nature 2002;420(6914):401–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Urakawa I., Yamazaki Y., Shimada T., et al. Klotho converts canonical FGF receptor into a specific receptor for FGF23. Nature 2006;444(7120):770–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mallée R., Fuchs W., Eligehausen R. Design of Fastenings for Use in Concrete - the CEN/TS 1992-4 Provisions, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Nahab FB., Hattori N. Neuroimaging of Movement Disorders, vol. 44, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Hardt N., Kuttenberger J. Mechanisms of Craniofacial Fractures. In: Hardt N, Kuttenberger J, editors. Craniofacial Trauma: Diagnosis and Management, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 55–61.

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

Taub B. More American Grandparents Are Using Marijuana Than Ever Before. IFLScience. Available in: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/more-american-grandparents-using-marijuana-ever-before/ [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. Department of Education: The Eisenhower Math and Science State Grant Program, 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

Joshi T. Understanding gold nanoisland formation using transport measurement. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

Eligon J., Gebeloff R. Segregation, the Neighbor That Won’t Leave. New York Times 2016:A1.

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