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

Hogan CJ (2002) Cosmology. The beginning of time. Science 295:2223–2225

A journal article with 2 authors

Zimmerman GA, Weyrich AS (2010) Immunology. Arsonists in rheumatoid arthritis. Science 327:528–529

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim D, Son S-W, Jeong H (2014) Large-scale quantitative analysis of painting arts. Sci Rep 4:7370

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Taipale J, Cooper MK, Maiti T, Beachy PA (2002) Patched acts catalytically to suppress the activity of Smoothened. Nature 418:892–897

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rangarao KV, Mallik RK (2006) Digital Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Radosevich JA (2012) HPV and Cancer. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Gan Z, Tang Q (2011) Calibration of a Robot Visual System. In: Tang Q (ed) Visual Sensing and its Applications: Integration of Laser Sensors to Industrial Robots. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 93–141

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 D (2015) NASA Tests Flying Saucer. 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 (1992) Operation Desert Shield: Problems in Deploying by Rail Need Attention. 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

Gage JD (2009) An inconsistency-based approach for sensing assessment in unknown environments. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Feeney K (2006) Endless Options in a Wrap. New York Times NJ6

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

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