How to format your references using the Tumor Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tumor Biology. 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

1. Khodakhah K. Neuroscience: Decrypting a brain enigma. Nature. 2015;526:326–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hertzfeld HR, Pace SN. Space law. International cooperation on human lunar heritage. Science. 2013;342:1049–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chabanov AA, Stoytchev M, Genack AZ. Statistical signatures of photon localization. Nature. 2000;404:850–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Huang Y-W, Chen WT, Wu PC, Fedotov VA, Zheludev NI, Tsai DP. Toroidal lasing spaser. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1237.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wilmott P, Orrell D. The Money Formula. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Changeux J-P, Damasio AR, Singer W, Christen Y, editors. Neurobiology of Human Values. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lane JI, Witte RJ. Imaging Microscopy of the Temporal Bone: An Anatomy Tutorial. In: Witte RJ, editor. The Temporal Bone: An Imaging Atlas. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 97–8.

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 Tumor Biology.

Blog post

1. Evans K. Math Problem “Stumping Internet” Is A Hoax, So Here Is The Real One. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Inquiry About the Research Grant To Develop a Portable Computer To Record Traffic Information for Verifying the Accuracy of Charges for Telecommunications Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974 Mar. Report No.: B-180444.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gilman DG. Comparative analysis of corporate culture in a multinational organization [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2013.

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

1. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: U.S. Begins Return Of Soviet Documents. New York Times. 2002 Dec 14;A8.

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	Tumor Biology
Abbreviation	Tumour Biol.
ISSN (print)	1010-4283
ISSN (online)	1423-0380
Scope	General Medicine