How to format your references using the Journal of Bone Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Bone 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	Download the output style file
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]

S. DeWeerdt, Diagnostics: a testing journey, Nature 474 (2011) S20-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Siller, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. steven.siller@zoo.ox.ac.uk, Sexual selection and the maintenance of sex, Nature 411 (2001) 689–692.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Tsori, F. Tournilhac, L. Leibler, Demixing in simple fluids induced by electric field gradients, Nature 430 (2004) 544–547.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.-S. Liu, P.J. De Barro, J. Xu, J.-B. Luan, L.-S. Zang, Y.-M. Ruan, F.-H. Wan, Asymmetric mating interactions drive widespread invasion and displacement in a whitefly, Science 318 (2007) 1769–1772.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N.-E. Choi, J.H. Han, How Flavor Works, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

S. Satchell, ed., Asset Management: Portfolio Construction, Performance and Returns, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Biscari, T. Ruggeri, G. Saccomandi, M.S. Vianello, Sistemi vincolati, in: T. Ruggeri, G. Saccomandi, M.S. Vianello (Eds.), Meccanica Razionale, Springer, Milano, 2016: pp. 49–86.

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 Bone Oncology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Image From Curiosity Rover Reveals Mysterious Light, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/image-curiosity-rover-reveals-mysterious-light/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, D.C. Nonappropriated Revenue, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.S. Zinda, American Cerberus: Pit Bulls and Psyche in the United States, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017.

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]

J. Wagner, Mets Lose Game but Not Any Ground, New York Times (2016) B12.

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	Journal of Bone Oncology
Abbreviation	J. Bone Oncol.
ISSN (print)	2212-1374
Scope