How to format your references using the Supportive Care in Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Supportive Care in Cancer. 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

Ransohoff DF (2003) Cancer. Developing molecular biomarkers for cancer. Science 299:1679–1680

A journal article with 2 authors

Kmita M, Duboule D (2003) Organizing axes in time and space; 25 years of colinear tinkering. Science 301:331–333

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson RI, Turner GC, Laurent G (2004) Transformation of olfactory representations in the Drosophila antennal lobe. Science 303:366–370

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yao H, Price TT, Cantelli G, et al (2018) Leukaemia hijacks a neural mechanism to invade the central nervous system. Nature 560:55–60

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ishiyama JT (2011) Comparative Politics. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Kitamura R, Kuwahara M (2005) Simulation Approaches in Transportation Analysis: Recent Advances and Challenges. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Ginat DT, Moonis G, Freitag SK (2015) Imaging After Oculoplastic Surgery. In: Ginat DT, Freitag SK (eds) Post-treatment Imaging of the Orbit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 65–124

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 Supportive Care in Cancer.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Zoo Owner Claims To Have Solved The Riddle Of The Beast Of Dartmoor. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/zoo-owner-claims-to-have-solved-the-riddle-of-the-beast-of-dartmoor/. 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 (1995) Early Childhood Programs: Promoting the Development of Young Children in Denmark, France, and Italy. 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

Bontrager JG (2015) Characterization and Applications for A Polymerized DiaCEST Contrast Agent. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Crow K (2002) Where Culture and Traffic Intersect, a Dispute. New York Times 146

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	Supportive Care in Cancer
Abbreviation	Support. Care Cancer
ISSN (print)	0941-4355
ISSN (online)	1433-7339
Scope	Oncology