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

Klein CA. Cancer. The metastasis cascade. Science 2008;321(5897):1785–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kershaw MH., Smyth MJ. Immunology. Making macrophages eat cancer. Science 2013;341(6141):41–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Curry R., Dickson B., Yashayaev I. A change in the freshwater balance of the Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades. Nature 2003;426(6968):826–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen L., Chen W., Qian X., Fang Y., Zhu N. Liquiritigenin alleviates mechanical and cold hyperalgesia in a rat neuropathic pain model. Sci Rep 2014;4:5676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Utsuro M., Ignatovich VK. Handbook of Neutron Optics, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Esparza AX., McPherson G. The Planner’s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation: The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe, New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Bächle S., Härder T. The Real Performance Drivers behind XML Lock Protocols. In: Bhowmick SS, Küng J, Wagner R, editors. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 20th International Conference, DEXA 2009, Linz, Austria, August 31 – September 4, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 38–52.

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

Hale T. Elon Musk Has A 'Top Secret Tesla Masterplan” Coming This Week. IFLScience. Available in: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-has-a-top-secret-tesla-masterplan-coming-this-week/ [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. Export Controls: NASA Management Action and Improved Oversight Needed to Reduce the Risk of Unauthorized Access to Its Technologies, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hudson N. Undocumented Latino Student Activists’ Funds of Knowledge: Transforming Social Movements. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2017:MM20.

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

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