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

Wu F. Perspective: time to face the fungal threat. Nature 2014;516(7529):S7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keeling PJ., Palmer JD. Parabasalian flagellates are ancient eukaryotes. Nature 2000;405(6787):635–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palmer MJ., Fukuyama F., Relman DA. SCIENCE GOVERNANCE. A more systematic approach to biological risk. Science 2015;350(6267):1471–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim BN., Hiraga K., Morita K., Sakka Y. A high-strain-rate superplastic ceramic. Nature 2001;413(6853):288–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sengupta DL., Liepa VV. Applied Electromagnetics and Electromagnetic Compatibility, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Abadi M., Lluch Lafuente A. Trustworthy Global Computing: 8th International Symposium, TGC 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 30-31, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, vol. 8358, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Schulze H., Semeniak D., Balduini A. Impact of the Megakaryocytic Vascular Niche on Platelet Biogenesis. In: Schulze H, Italiano J, editors. Molecular and Cellular Biology of Platelet Formation: Implications in Health and Disease, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 93–114.

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

O`Callaghan J. Discovery Of Massless Weyl Fermion Particle Could Revolutionize Electronics. IFLScience. Available in: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/discovery-massless-weyl-fermion-particle-could-revolutionize-electronics/ [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. Weather Forecasting: Cost Growth and Delays in Billion-Dollar Weather Service Modernization, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ma D. Acyclic congeners of Cucurbit[n]uril and a related mechanistic study on the Cucurbit[n]uril forming reaction. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 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

St. John Kelly E. Building a Business, Quarter by Quarter. New York Times 1998:144.

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