How to format your references using the Zeszyty Naukowe WCO, Letters in Oncology Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Zeszyty Naukowe WCO, Letters in Oncology Science. 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

[1]

Q. Schiermeier, G8 climate target questioned, Nature 460 (2009) 313.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.H. Wilson, S.J. Elledge, Cancer. BRCA2 enters the fray, Science 297 (2002) 1822–1823.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Lin, I.A. Balabin, D.N. Beratan, The nature of aqueous tunneling pathways between electron-transfer proteins, Science 310 (2005) 1311–1313.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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M. Treviño, T. Oviedo, P. Jendritza, S.-B. Li, G. Köhr, R.J. De Marco, Controlled variations in stimulus similarity during learning determine visual discrimination capacity in freely moving mice, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1048.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-F. Sigrist, Fluid-Structure Interaction, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

O. Busch, ed., Programmatic Advertising: The Successful Transformation to Automated, Data-Driven Marketing in Real-Time, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Neuer, C. Mosch, J. Salk, K. Siegmund, V. Kushnarenko, S. Kombrink, T. Nau, S. Wesner, Storage Systems for I/O-Intensive Applications in Computational Chemistry, in: M.M. Resch, W. Bez, E. Focht, H. Kobayashi, J. Qi, S. Roller (Eds.), Sustained Simulation Performance 2015: Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Sustained Simulation Performance, University of Stuttgart (HLRS) and Tohoku University, 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 51–60.

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 Zeszyty Naukowe WCO, Letters in Oncology Science.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, New Finding Offers Breakthrough In Beating African Sleeping Sickness, IFLScience (2016).

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, Management Agenda for the Presidential and Congressional Transition: Improve Federal Performance to Better Achieve Results, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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P.R. Araki, Golden Years Home Residential Care Facility for the Elderly, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

J. Goldsmith, Yes, We Are Holding Trump Accountable, New York Times (2017) 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	Zeszyty Naukowe WCO, Letters in Oncology Science
ISSN (print)	1734-0489
Scope