How to format your references using the Gastric Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gastric Cancer. 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. Brody H. Cancer. Nature. 2014;509:S49.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yoo BC, Lubec G. p25 protein in neurodegeneration. Nature. 2001;411:763–4; discussion 764-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kainulainen J, Federrath C, Henning T. Unfolding the laws of star formation: the density distribution of molecular clouds. Science. 2014;344:183–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang Z, Smith KS, Murphy M, Piloto O, Somervaille TCP, Cleary ML. Glycogen synthase kinase 3 in MLL leukaemia maintenance and targeted therapy. Nature. 2008;455:1205–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Vitetta GM, Taylor DP, Colavolpe G, Pancaldi F, Martin PA. Wireless Communications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Wang H, Qi H, Che W, Qiu Z, Kong L, Han Z, et al., editors. Intelligent Computation in Big Data Era: International Conference of Young Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICYCSEE 2015, Harbin, China, January 10-12, 2015. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Koltay P, Ducrée J, Zengerle RD. Micro-Fluidic Platforms. In: Urban GA, editor. BioMEMS. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006. p. 139–65.

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 Gastric Cancer.

Blog post

1. Evans K. Here’s How Much Of The US Would Need To Be Covered In Wind Turbines To Power The Nation [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-how-much-the-us-would-need-to-be-covered-in-wind-turbines-to-power-the-nation/. 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. [Comments on Proposal To Add Subpart to FAR]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Jun. Report No.: B-226826.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Waterman MA. Housing for the homeless mentally ill population: A grant writing project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Greenhouse L. The Justices Have Cellphones, Too. New York Times. 2014 Jun 25;A27.

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	Gastric Cancer
Abbreviation	Gastric Cancer
ISSN (print)	1436-3291
ISSN (online)	1436-3305
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Gastroenterology Oncology