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

Cooper TA (2009) Molecular biology. Neutralizing toxic RNA. Science 325:272–273

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheridan GK, Dev KK (2014) Targeting S1P receptors in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice improves early deficits in locomotor activity and increases ultrasonic vocalisations. Sci Rep 4:5051

A journal article with 3 authors

Taguchi A, Wartschow LM, White MF (2007) Brain IRS2 signaling coordinates life span and nutrient homeostasis. Science 317:369–372

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dai ZR, Bradley JP, Joswiak DJ, et al (2002) Possible in situ formation of meteoritic nanodiamonds in the early Solar System. Nature 418:157–159

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray DF, Malone SW (2008) Macrofinancial Risk Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Kruglikov B, Lychagin V, Straume E (2009) Differential Equations - Geometry, Symmetries and Integrability: The Abel Symposium 2008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jones K, Mackrell K, Stevenson I (2010) Designing Digital Technologies and Learning Activities for Different Geometries. In: Hoyles C, Lagrange J-B (eds) Mathematics Education and Technology-Rethinking the Terrain: The 17th ICMI Study. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 47–60

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) NASA Releases Amazing “Dark Spot” Image Of Jupiter As Juno Makes Fifth Flyby. 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 (2001) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Manalo JB (2017) Ascend Physical Therapy: A Private Practice Clinic for the Next Level. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Schwartz J (2016) Putting words into action at climate summit. New York Times S6

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