How to format your references using the Journal of Oncological Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Oncological Sciences. 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

Pimentel D. Biological control of invading species. Science. 2000;289(5481):869c.

A journal article with 2 authors

McGraw JB, Furedi MA. Deer browsing and population viability of a forest understory plant. Science. 2005;307(5711):920-922.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pellizzoni L, Yong J, Dreyfuss G. Essential role for the SMN complex in the specificity of snRNP assembly. Science. 2002;298(5599):1775-1779.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu X, Norell MA, Wang XL, Makovicky PJ, Wu XC. A basal troodontid from the Early Cretaceous of China. Nature. 2002;415(6873):780-784.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones P, Burger J. Configuring SAP® ERP Financials and Controlling. Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Valcke S. Earth System Modelling - Volume 3: Coupling Software and Strategies. (Redler R, Budich R, eds.). Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Little AS, Gore PA, Darbar A, Teo C. Supraorbital Eyebrow Approach. In: Cappabianca P, Iaconetta G, Califano L, eds. Cranial, Craniofacial and Skull Base Surgery. Springer; 2010:27-38.

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 Oncological Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. Tiny implanted sensor and your smartphone could help prevent blindness. IFLScience. September 2, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tiny-implanted-sensor-and-your-smartphone-could-help-prevent-blindness/

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. Internal Revenue Service: Results of Review of IRS Spending for Business Systems Modernization. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ramos J. Surviving Childhood Bullying: Impact on Psychosocial Well-Being in Adulthood. 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

Walsh MW. New York Taxpayers Facing $200 Billion in Retiree Costs. New York Times. October 13, 2010:B1.

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 Oncological Sciences
ISSN (print)	2452-3364
Scope