How to format your references using the Strahlentherapie und Onkologie citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Strahlentherapie und Onkologie. 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

Archer D (2003) Ocean science. Who threw that snowball? Science 302:791–792

A journal article with 2 authors

Eames M, Kortemme T (2012) Cost-benefit tradeoffs in engineered lac operons. Science 336:911–915

A journal article with 3 authors

Andersson JO, Doolittle WF, Nesbø CL (2001) Genomics. Are there bugs in our genome? Science 292:1848–1850

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Libert S, Zwiener J, Chu X, et al (2007) Regulation of Drosophila life span by olfaction and food-derived odors. Science 315:1133–1137

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coenen T (2008) Essentials of Corporate Fraud. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Shen B (2014) Modelling Rock Fracturing Processes: A Fracture Mechanics Approach Using FRACOD. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Smith BJ (2009) Weathering Processes and Forms. In: Parsons AJ, Abrahams AD (eds) Geomorphology of Desert Environments. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 69–100

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 Strahlentherapie und Onkologie.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) New Peruvian Frog Has White Splotches On Its Belly. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2012) Information Technology: FDA Needs to Fully Implement Key Management Practices to Lessen Modernization Risks. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yoon T (2008) Object Recognition Based on Multi-Agent Spatial Reasoning. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Park LS (2013) Endangered Daughters. New York Times BR21

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	Strahlentherapie und Onkologie
Abbreviation	Strahlenther. Onkol.
ISSN (print)	0179-7158
ISSN (online)	1439-099X
Scope	Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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