How to format your references using the World Journal of Clinical Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Clinical Oncology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Laybourn-Parry J. Microbiology. No place too cold. Science 2009; 324: 1521–1522.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hubbell JA, Chilkoti A. Chemistry. Nanomaterials for drug delivery. Science 2012; 337: 303–305.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vinothkumar KR, Zhu J, Hirst J. Architecture of mammalian respiratory complex I. Nature 2014; 515: 80–84.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Ishii HA, Bradley JP, Dai ZR, Chi M, Kearsley AT, Burchell MJ, Browning ND, Molster F. Comparison of comet 81P/Wild 2 dust with interplanetary dust from comets. Science 2008; 319: 447–450.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb AH, Reade JPH. Herbicides and Plant Physiology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Ricroch A, Chopra S, Fleischer SJ (eds). Plant Biotechnology: Experience and Future Prospects. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Bodner G. Nerve Compression Syndromes. In: Peer S, Bodner G, editors. High-Resolution Sonography of the Peripheral Nervous System. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008: 71–122.

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 World Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Gusev Crater On Mars Was Once a Lake. IFLScience. 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/gusev-crater-mars-was-once-lake/

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. Transit Grants: Need for Improved Predictability, Data, and Monitoring in Application Processing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yang Z. Primary Isotope Effect on Secondary Kinetic Isotope Effects and Hammett Correlations in Hydride Transfer Reactions. 2017.

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

Kelly K. Keep ’Em Coming. New York Times. 2007; : A23.

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	World Journal of Clinical Oncology
ISSN (online)	2218-4333
Scope