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

Taubes G (2000) ASTRONOMY: Researchers Get Spectrum Bands. Science 288:2107–2109

A journal article with 2 authors

Rudolph ML, Zhong S (2013) Does quadrupole stability imply LLSVP fixity? Nature 503:E3-4

A journal article with 3 authors

Campbell C, Shea K, Albert R (2014) Network models. Comment on “Control profiles of complex networks.” Science 346:561

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Niu H, Chung W-H, Zhu Z, et al (2010) Mechanism of the ATP-dependent DNA end-resection machinery from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature 467:108–111

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov BM (2010) Cluster Processes in Gases and Plasmas. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Rattan SIS, Kassem M (2006) Prevention and Treatment of Age-related Diseases. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Theodorou MK, Brookman J, Trinci APJ (2005) Anaerobic fungi. In: Makkar HPS, McSweeney CS (eds) Methods in Gut Microbial Ecology for Ruminants. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 55–66

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

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Take First X-Ray Images Of Living Bacteria. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-take-first-x-ray-images-living-bacteria/. 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 (1981) Small Businesses and Innovation, Small Business Research Conference. 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

Berezin S (2009) Catechols as membrane anion transporters. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Barron J (2017) For Architect, Making A Calmer Restaurant Was Very Stressful. New York Times A21

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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