How to format your references using the Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology (JAYAO). 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

Danielson D. Scientist’s birthright. Nature 2001;410(6832):1031.

A journal article with 2 authors

Surani A, Smith J. Obituary: Anne McLaren (1927-2007). Nature 2007;448(7155):764–765.

A journal article with 3 authors

Griffin AS, West SA, Buckling A. Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria. Nature 2004;430(7003):1024–1027.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Potok RM, Rau IG, Shtrikman H, et al. Observation of the two-channel Kondo effect. Nature 2007;446(7132):167–171.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Block T, Eggert H, Kauschke W. Lager Im Bauwesen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany; 2013.

An edited book

Magnani L, Carnielli W, Pizzi C, (eds). Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Freese AR. Transformation Through Self-Study. In: Making a Difference in Teacher Education Through Self-Study: Studies of Personal, Professional and Program Renewal. (Kosnik C, Beck C, Freese AR, et al. eds). Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2005; pp. 65–79.

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 Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology.

Blog post

Andrews R. A Completely New Human Organ Has Just Been Officially Discovered. IFLScience; 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/completely-new-human-organ-officially-discovered/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Health, Education and Human Services Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Havill NL. Therapeutic Landscapes for Birth: A Research Synthesis. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC; 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

Hodara S. Canvases So Big They Are Seldom Seen. New York Times 2015;WE9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology
ISSN (print)	2156-5333
ISSN (online)	2156-535X
Scope