How to format your references using the Current Oncology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Oncology 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. Guan J-L. Cell biology. Integrins, rafts, Rac, and Rho. Science. 2004;303:773–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Page J, Ware M. Perspective: Close the knowledge gap. Nature. 2015;525:S9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kuwamura T, Kadota T, Suzuki S. Testing the low-density hypothesis for reversed sex change in polygynous fish: experiments in Labroides dimidiatus. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4369.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pereira Morais MP, Marshall D, Flower SE, Caunt CJ, James TD, Williams RJ, et al. Analysis of protein glycation using fluorescent phenylboronate gel electrophoresis. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1437.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Green SD. Making Sense of Construction Improvement. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Moisan M. Physics of Collisional Plasmas: Introduction to High-Frequency Discharges. Pelletier J, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Leslie D, Sherfield C, Smart NP. Threshold FlipThem: When the Winner Does Not Need to Take All. In: Khouzani M, Panaousis E, Theodorakopoulos G, editors. Decision and Game Theory for Security: 6th International Conference, GameSec 2015, London, UK, November 4-5, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 74–92.

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 Oncology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Could This Biochemist’s Veggie Burger Be The Closest Thing To Real Meat? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/could-biochemists-veggie-burger-be-closest-thing-real-meat/. 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. 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

1. Dubin-Thaler BJ. Evidence for hierarchical control of conserved, discrete motility types in crawling motility [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2008.

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. Johnson G. In Every Breath, a Cancer Risk? New York Times. 2016 Jan 26;D2.

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 Oncology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Oncol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1523-3790
ISSN (online)	1534-6269
Scope	Oncology