How to format your references using the Chemotherapy citation style

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

Rosswog S. Astronomy. Short gamma-ray bursts. Science. 2004 Jan;303(5654):46–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Patel MR, Shen K. RSY-1 is a local inhibitor of presynaptic assembly in C. elegans. Science. 2009 Mar;323(5920):1500–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kinnunen J, Rodríguez M, Törmä P. Pairing gap and in-gap excitations in trapped fermionic superfluids. Science. 2004 Aug;305(5687):1131–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Prather JF, Peters S, Nowicki S, Mooney R. Precise auditory-vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. Nature. 2008 Jan;451(7176):305–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Caferro W. Contesting the Renaissance. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Yamanaka R, editor. Glioma: Immunotherapeutic Approaches. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Periakaruppan R, Nadarajan R. Automatic Clustering of Research Articles Using Domain Ontology and Fuzzy Logic. In: Chiu DKW, Wang M, Popescu E, Li Q, Lau R, Shih TK, et al., editors. Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2013 Workshops: USL 2013, IWSLL 2013, KMEL 2013, IWCWL 2013, WIL 2013, and IWEEC 2013, Kenting, Taiwan, October 6-9, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015; pp 42–51.

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 Chemotherapy.

Blog post

Andrew E. Hubble Takes Spectacular Photograph Of Nebula And Star Together [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-photographs-glamorous-cosmic-couple/

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. USDA Telecommunications: Missed Opportunities to Save Millions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Washington-Cobb SL. Exploring the Experiences of Former Alternative Education Participants: Case Studies. 2012

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

McKINLEY JC Jr. After Scrutiny, Vance Returned $32,000 to Trump Lawyer. New York Times. 2017 Oct;A20.

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	Chemotherapy
Abbreviation	Chemotherapy
ISSN (print)	0009-3157
ISSN (online)	1421-9794
Scope	General Medicine Infectious Diseases Oncology Pharmacology (medical) Drug Discovery Pharmacology