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]

A. Katsnelson, Drug development: target practice, Nature. 498 (2013) S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.A. Lumpkin, M.J. Caterina, Mechanisms of sensory transduction in the skin, Nature. 445 (2007) 858–865.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

X. Li, J. Zhao, J. Yang, Semihydrogenated BN sheet: a promising visible-light driven photocatalyst for water splitting, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1858.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Shibata, R. Branicky, I.O. Landaverde, S. Hekimi, Redox regulation of germline and vulval development in Caenorhabditis elegans, Science. 302 (2003) 1779–1782.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B.S. Fulton, Drug Discovery for the Treatment of Addiction, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

H. Pfister, Inertia and Gravitation: The Fundamental Nature and Structure of Space-Time, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Szende, B. Janssen, Socio-demographic Indicators Based on EQ-5D, in: A. Szende, B. Janssen, J. Cabases (Eds.), Self-Reported Population Health: An International Perspective Based on EQ-5D, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 37–46.

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]

J. Davis, Ongoing Algal Blooms Linked To The Largest Die-Off Of Great Whales Ever Recorded, IFLScience. (2015).

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, Electronic Government: Federal Agencies Have Made Progress Implementing the E-Government Act of 2002, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.R. Royalty, U.S. Military Advisors in Iraq: A Phenomenological Research Study on the Role of National Culture on Tactical Decision-making during Wartime, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2015.

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. Eligon, Australia Through American Eyes, New York Times. (2017) A6.

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