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

Barnes PJ (2010) Medicine. Neutrophils find smoke attractive. Science 330:40–41

A journal article with 2 authors

Bintanja R, Selten FM (2014) Future increases in Arctic precipitation linked to local evaporation and sea-ice retreat. Nature 509:479–482

A journal article with 3 authors

Courtial J, Leach J, Padgett MJ (2001) Fractals in pixellated video feedback. Nature 414:864

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hafez HA, Kovalev S, Deinert J-C, et al (2018) Extremely efficient terahertz high-harmonic generation in graphene by hot Dirac fermions. Nature 561:507–511

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korst J, Pronk V (2006) Multimedia Storage and Retrieval. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Venugopal KR (2009) Soft Computing for Data Mining Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Filieri R (2016) How Young Chinese Consumers Choose among Different Smartphone Brands: The Importance of Socio-cultural and Marketing Factors. In: Dey B, Sorour K, Filieri R (eds) ICTs in Developing Countries: Research, Practices and Policy Implications. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 59–73

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

Andrew E (2014) Device Gives Real-Time Look at Cancer Metastasis. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/device-gives-real-time-look-cancer-metastasis/. 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 (1972) Controls Over Funds Available to the District of Columbia Public Schools. 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

Chitakasempornkul K (2012) Ordinal time series analysis for Air Quality Index (AQI) in San Bernardino County. 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

Paulson M, Kishkovsky S (2015) Play About Oscar Wilde Runs Afoul of Kremlin. New York Times C1

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