How to format your references using the Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics citation style

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

Burkard G. Physics. Splitting spin states on a chip. Science. 2010 Feb 5;327(5966):650–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sarewitz D, Nelson R. Three rules for technological fixes. Nature. 2008 Dec 18;456(7224):871–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sadeghi O, Zakharov LN, Nyman M. Crystal growth. Aqueous formation and manipulation of the iron-oxo Keggin ion. Science. 2015 Mar 20;347(6228):1359–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gerton JM, Strekalov D, Prodan I, Hulet RG. Direct observation of growth and collapse of a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interactions. Nature. 2000 Dec 7;408(6813):692–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fant KM. Logically Determined Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Becher T. Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. Broggio A, Ferroglia A, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XI, 206 p. 64 illus., 50 illus. in color. (Lecture Notes in Physics; vol. 896).

A chapter in an edited book

Bokemeyer C, Seidel C. Metastatic Germ Cell Cancer: The Intermediate-Prognosis Risk Category. In: Krege S, editor. Diagnosis and Management of Testicular Cancer: The European Point of View. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 55–64.

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 Research and Therapeutics.

Blog post

Davis J. Bioluminescence In Fish Is Far More Widespread Than Previously Thought [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bioluminescence-in-fish-is-far-more-widespread-than-previously-thought/

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. Space Shuttle: Human Capital and Safety Upgrade Challenges Require Continued Attention. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD/GGD-00-186.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rawashdeh MY. A Relational Framework for Clustering and Cluster Validity and the Generalization of the Silhouette Measure [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2013.

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

Greenhouse L. Justices to Decide When Victims’ Transcripts Can Be Used. New York Times. 2005 Nov 1;A20.

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 Research and Therapeutics
Abbreviation	J. Cancer Res. Ther.
ISSN (print)	0973-1482
ISSN (online)	1998-4138
Scope	General Medicine Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging