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

Fisk Z (2007) Physics. A whiff of chemistry in heavy electron physics. Science 318:1559–1560

A journal article with 2 authors

Blake GA, Bergin EA (2015) Planetary science: Prebiotic chemistry on the rocks. Nature 520:161–162

A journal article with 3 authors

Vandermeer J, Perfecto I, Philpott SM (2008) Clusters of ant colonies and robust criticality in a tropical agroecosystem. Nature 451:457–459

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Quhe R, Yuan Y, Zheng J, et al (2014) Does the Dirac cone exist in silicene on metal substrates? Sci Rep 4:5476

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Green PE Jr (2005) Fiber to the Home. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Borrego C, Norman A-L (2007) Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XVII. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Stark F (2011) Corporate Criminal Liability in Scotland: The Problems with a Piecemeal Approach. In: Pieth M, Ivory R (eds) Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 113–146

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 (2015) Whatever Our Emotions Tell Us, Not All Whaling Is The Same. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whatever-our-emotions-tell-us-not-all-whaling-same/. 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 (1991) The San Francisco Regional Office, 1954-1987: Interview With Harold J. D’Ambrogia, Kenneth A. Pollock, Richard A. Sheldon, and Charles F. Vincent. 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

Alsari F (2015) Training needs analysis for women in educational leadership in Saudi Arabia. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Murphy MJO (2014) ‘John D. Ducks for Apples.’ New York Times C30

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