How to format your references using the Molecular Cancer Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Cancer 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	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

Robinson K. Personal finance. Young scientists need firm plan to make up for a late start. Science. 2006;313:1454–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Argus JP, Bensinger SJ. Immunology. Fueling function over expansion in T cells. Science. 2013;341:37–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green DR, Galluzzi L, Kroemer G. Cell biology. Metabolic control of cell death. Science. 2014;345:1250256.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Roca AL, Georgiadis N, Pecon-Slattery J, O’Brien SJ. Genetic evidence for two species of elephant in Africa. Science. 2001;293:1473–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cowan JP. The Effects of Sound on People. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Button G. Deconstructing Ethnography: Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design. Crabtree A, Rouncefield M, Tolmie P, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Jain V. Domain Adaptation for Face Detection. In: Singh R, Vatsa M, Majumdar A, Kumar A, editors. Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing. New Delhi: Springer India; 2016. page 37–54.

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 Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

Blog post

Andrew D. Exercise Changes The Way Our Bodies Work At A Molecular Level [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/exercise-changes-the-way-our-bodies-work-at-a-molecular-level/

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. Federal Communications Commission: Use of the 28 GHz and 31 GHz Bands for Local Multipoint Distribution Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 May. Report No.: OGC-97-40.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ware SC. Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk in older women: A modifiable lifestyle risk factor [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Protess B, Silver-Greenberg J, Drucker J. Regulators Review German Bank At the Center of Trump’s Finances. New York Times. 2017;A1.

In-text citations

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

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	Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
Abbreviation	Mol. Cancer Ther.
ISSN (print)	1535-7163
ISSN (online)	1538-8514
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology