How to format your references using the Molecular Therapy - Oncolytics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Therapy - Oncolytics. 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

Bowles, S. (2012). Warriors, levelers, and the role of conflict in human social evolution. Science 336, 876–879.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhat, S.G., and Kumar, P.S.A. (2014). Room temperature electrical spin injection into GaAs by an oxide spin injector. Sci. Rep. 4, 5588.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koskinen, M.T., Haugen, T.O., and Primmer, C.R. (2002). Contemporary fisherian life-history evolution in small salmonid populations. Nature 419, 826–830.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ye, L., Kang, M., Liu, J., von Cube, F., Wicker, C.R., Suzuki, T., Jozwiak, C., Bostwick, A., Rotenberg, E., Bell, D.C., et al. (2018). Massive Dirac fermions in a ferromagnetic kagome metal. Nature 555, 638–642.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tewari, A. (2011). Advanced Control of Aircraft, Spacecraft and Rockets (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Bouguettaya, A., Hauswirth, M., and Liu, L. eds. (2011). Web Information System Engineering – WISE 2011: 12th International Conference, Sydney, Australia, October 13-14, 2011. Proceedings (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Lehner, M., Tichler, R., Steinmüller, H., and Koppe, M. (2014). Business Models. In Power-to-Gas: Technology and Business Models SpringerBriefs in Energy., R. Tichler, H. Steinmüller, and M. Koppe, eds. (Springer International Publishing), pp. 63–93.

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 Therapy - Oncolytics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016). Does Your Vulva Hurt? You Could Have Vulvodynia. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-your-vulva-hurt-you-could-have-vulvodynia/.

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 (1991). Services for the Elderly: Longstanding Transportation Problems Need More Federal Attention (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bennett, C.A. (2012). The stigma of mental illness as experienced by mental health professionals as patients: A phenomenological study.

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

Southall, A., and Schweber, N. (2016). Robbery Suspect Trying to Hide During Roundup Falls to His Death. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Therapy - Oncolytics
ISSN (print)	2372-7705
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