How to format your references using the Seminars in Cancer Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seminars in Cancer Biology. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

D. Butler, Public library set to turn publisher as boycott looms, Nature. 412 (2001) 469.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.R. Poulin, K.A. Nelson, Irreversible organic crystalline chemistry monitored in real time, Science. 313 (2006) 1756–1760.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.E. Bates, J.A. Simmons, T.V. Zorikov, Bats use echo harmonic structure to distinguish their targets from background clutter, Science. 333 (2011) 627–630.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Koren, J.V. Martins, L.A. Remer, H. Afargan, Smoke invigoration versus inhibition of clouds over the Amazon, Science. 321 (2008) 946–949.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.W. Pan, Wavelets in Electromagnetics and Device Modeling, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2003.

An edited book

[1]

D.-Y. Park, ed., Legal Issues on Climate Change and International Trade Law, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Bakardjieva, Subactivism, in: A. Feenberg, N. Friesen (Eds.), (Re)Inventing The Internet: Critical Case Studies, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2012: pp. 85–108.

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 Seminars in Cancer Biology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Why It Matters That Student Participation In Maths And Science Is Declining, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-it-matters-student-participation-maths-and-science-declining/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority: Contracting Practices Do Not Always Comply with Airport Lease Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.-C. Lin, Depression screening in ambulatory care, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

[1]

B. Sisario, Tommy LiPuma, 80, a Record Producer and Five-Time Grammy Award Winner, New York Times. (2017) B19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Seminars in Cancer Biology
Abbreviation	Semin. Cancer Biol.
ISSN (print)	1044-579X
Scope	Cancer Research

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