How to format your references using the Cancer Nanotechnology citation style

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

Dainton M. Palaeoanthropology: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk? Nature. 2001 Mar 15;410(6826):324–5; disussion 326.

A journal article with 2 authors

Queller DC, Strassmann JE. The many selves of social insects. Science. 2002 Apr 12;296(5566):311–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaganovich D, Kopito R, Frydman J. Misfolded proteins partition between two distinct quality control compartments. Nature. 2008 Aug 28;454(7208):1088–95.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Alam MA, Smith RK, Weir BE, Silverman PJ. Thin dielectric films: Uncorrelated breakdown of integrated circuits. Nature. 2002 Nov 28;420(6914):378.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonilla LL, Teitsworth SW. Nonlinear Wave Methods for Charge Transport. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Hammarlund-Udenaes M, de Lange ECM, Thorne RG, editors. Drug Delivery to the Brain: Physiological Concepts, Methodologies and Approaches. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Omar HA, Zhuang W. Conclusions and Future Works. In: Zhuang W, editor. Time Division Multiple Access For Vehicular Communications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 59–60.

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 Cancer Nanotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Analysis Suggests Sixth Mass Extinction Could Occur By 2200 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-analysis-suggests-sixth-mass-extinction-could-occur-2200/

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. The Intermodal Approach to Transportation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Jan. Report No.: 144264.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Luvani KD. AIRtouch: An Intelligent Virtual Keyboard [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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

Feeney K. Local, Fresh and in Season. New York Times. 2010 Oct 24;NJ12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dainton 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dainton 2001; Queller and Strassmann 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Queller and Strassmann 2002)
Three or more authors: (Alam et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cancer Nanotechnology
Abbreviation	Cancer Nanotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1868-6958
ISSN (online)	1868-6966
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Biomedical Engineering Oncology Pharmaceutical Science