How to format your references using the Journal of Cancer Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cancer Policy. 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]

L.P. Keszthelyi, Planetary science: Europa awakening, Nature 479 (2011) 485.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.E. Molloy, C. Veigel, Biophysics. Myosin motors walk the walk, Science 300 (2003) 2045–2046.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Mallatt, J. Chen, N.D. Holland, Comment on “A new species of yunnanozoan with implications for deuterostome evolution,” Science 300 (2003) 1372; author reply 1372.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Harrington, S. Luszcz, S. Seager, D. Deming, L.J. Richardson, The hottest planet, Nature 447 (2007) 691–693.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.F. Barron, B.R. Barron, Design for Thermal Stresses, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J.A. Jacko, ed., Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments: 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part III, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Rathjen, Models of Intuitionistic Set Theories over Partial Combinatory Algebras, in: J.-Y. Cai, S.B. Cooper, A. Li (Eds.), Theory and Applications of Models of Computation: Third International Conference, TAMC 2006, Beijing, China, May 15-20, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 68–78.

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 Cancer Policy.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, White Dwarf Seen Before And After It Exploded By Astronomers, 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, Immigration and Naturalization Service Proposed Procurement of Automated Data Processing Equipment To Streamline and Update Office Procedures, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.J. Capobianco, Effect of slot height variation on the aerodynamic performance of a circulation control airfoil: A CFD analysis, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

S. Brownmiller, Hugh Hefner Was My Enemy, New York Times (2017) SR3.

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 Cancer Policy
Abbreviation	J. Cancer Policy
ISSN (print)	2213-5383
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