How to format your references using the Current Treatment Options in Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Treatment Options in Oncology. 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. Bourzac K. Microbiome: the bacterial tightrope. Nature. 2014;516:S14-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Liemert A, Kienle A. Exact and efficient solution of the radiative transport equation for the semi-infinite medium. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2018.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Afek I, Ambar O, Silberberg Y. High-NOON states by mixing quantum and classical light. Science. 2010;328:879–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhuang Z, Frerich JM, Huntoon K, Yang C, Merrill MJ, Abdullaev Z, et al. Tumor derived vasculogenesis in von Hippel-Lindau disease-associated tumors. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. DeRosa DF. Foreign Exchange Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Makkar HPS, McSweeney CS, editors. Methods in Gut Microbial Ecology for Ruminants. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lévy F, Nazarenko A. Formalization of Natural Language Regulations through SBVR Structured English. In: Morgenstern L, Stefaneas P, Lévy F, Wyner A, Paschke A, editors. Theory, Practice, and Applications of Rules on the Web: 7th International Symposium, RuleML 2013, Seattle, WA, USA, July 11-13, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 19–33.

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 Treatment Options in Oncology.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Brain Training – Why It’s No Walk In The Park. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Modernization Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Apr. Report No.: RCED-94-167FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tucker MS. Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of in vitro selected artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2010.

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. Oestreich JR. Is It Really Opera? That’s Beside the Point. New York Times. 2017 May 5;C6.

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 Treatment Options in Oncology
Abbreviation	Curr. Treat. Options Oncol.
ISSN (print)	1527-2729
ISSN (online)	1534-6277
Scope	Oncology Pharmacology (medical)