How to format your references using the Anticancer Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Anticancer Research. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kitayama K: Comment on “Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences.” Science 308: 633; author reply 633, 2005. PMID: 15860609.

A journal article with 2 authors

Birch JM and Dickinson MH: Spanwise flow and the attachment of the leading-edge vortex on insect wings. Nature 412: 729–733, 2001. PMID: 11507639.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pellizzoni L, Yong J and Dreyfuss G: Essential role for the SMN complex in the specificity of snRNP assembly. Science 298: 1775–1779, 2002. PMID: 12459587.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pushkarsky I, Liu Y, Lyb Y, Weaver W, Su T-W, Mudanyali O, Ozcan A and Di Carlo D: Automated single-cell motility analysis on a chip using lensfree microscopy. Sci Rep 4: 4717, 2014. PMID: 24739819.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rounds J and Segner R: Construction Supervision. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Myers WL: Multivariate Methods of Representing Relations in R for Prioritization Purposes: Selective Scaling, Comparative Clustering, Collective Criteria and Sequenced Sets. (Patil GP (ed.)). New York, NY, Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Neueder R: Conductivity of Electrolytes. In: Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry. Kreysa G, Ota K-I and Savinell RF (eds.). New York, NY, Springer, pp 260–264, 2014.

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 Anticancer Research.

Blog post

Andrew E: Why Men Are Not Biologically Useless After All …. IFLScience, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-men-are-not-biologically-useless-after-all/ [last accessed October 30, 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: Airline Competition: Weak Financial Structure Threatens Competition. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Malekian A: Combinatorial problems in online advertising., 2009.

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

Weiser B and Walsh MW: Ramapo Official Charged in Securities Fraud Case. New York Times: A23, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Anticancer Research
Abbreviation	Anticancer Res.
ISSN (print)	0250-7005
ISSN (online)	1791-7530
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Oncology