How to format your references using the Current Colorectal Cancer Reports citation style

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

1. Hoskins BJ. Atmospheric science. Climate change at cruising altitude? Science. 2003;301:469–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Errington JR, Debenedetti PG. Relationship between structural order and the anomalies of liquid water. Nature. 2001;409:318–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lin DY-W, Huang S, Chen J. Crystal structures of a polypeptide processing and secretion transporter. Nature. 2015;523:425–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Akturk A, Wasilko DJ, Wu X, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Qiu J, et al. Mechanism of phosphoribosyl-ubiquitination mediated by a single Legionella effector. Nature. 2018;557:729–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Neuber A, Nuttall T. Diagnostic Techniques in Veterinary Dermatology. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Stroszczynski C, editor. Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Haag R. Quantum Events and Irreversibility. In: Albeverio S, Blanchard P, editors. Direction of Time. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 31–4.

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 Current Colorectal Cancer Reports.

Blog post

1. Evans K. 13 Foods That Aren’t What You think They Are [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/13-foods-that-arent-what-you-think-they-are/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Amtrak Training: Improvements Needed for Employees Who Inspect and Maintain Rail Equipment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Dec. Report No.: RCED-93-68.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Miller BA. “Parable-art” beyond the Auden generation: An examination of the message-bearing aspects and architecture of two twenty-first-century works for chorus and chamber orchestra [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

1. Feeney K. Homegrown: Sweet Peaches. New York Times. 2008 Jul 13;NJ8.

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	Current Colorectal Cancer Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Colorectal Cancer Rep.
ISSN (print)	1556-3790
ISSN (online)	1556-3804
Scope	Gastroenterology Hepatology Oncology