How to format your references using the Cancer Discovery citation style

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

Blumenthal MS. National Academy of Sciences: Move with the times. Nature. 2013;494:423–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cryan JF, O’Leary OF. Neuroscience. A glutamate pathway to faster-acting antidepressants? Science. 2010;329:913–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Serreze MC, Holland MM, Stroeve J. Perspectives on the Arctic’s shrinking sea-ice cover. Science. 2007;315:1533–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schlesinger ME, Ramankutty N, Andronova N, Margolis M, Kerr RA. Temperature oscillations in the north atlantic. Science. 2000;289:547b–8b.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bradford R. Is Shakespeare Any Good? Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Lajtha A, Oja SS, Schousboe A, Saransaari P, editors. Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Amino Acids and Peptides in the Nervous System. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Udovyk O. GIS FOR INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. In: Hlavinek P, Kukharchyk T, Marsalek J, Mahrikova I, editors. Integrated Urban Water Resources Management. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. page 35–42.

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 Cancer Discovery.

Blog post

Fang J. Robotic Arms and Hands That Can Feel [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/closest-weve-come-robot-arms-and-hands-can-feel/

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: Department of Labor’s Certification Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Apr. Report No.: T-RCED-00-157.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Castaneda Martinez NE. Implementation of the Parent Partner Project to improve reunification rates in Sonoma County: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Wagner J. Cubs Send Nationals to Their Latest Early Exit. New York Times. 2017;B10.

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	Cancer Discovery
Abbreviation	Cancer Discov.
ISSN (print)	2159-8274
ISSN (online)	2159-8290
Scope	Oncology