How to format your references using the Neuro-Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuro-Oncology. 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

Sapolsky RM. Behavior. Sympathy for the CEO. Science. 2011;333(6040):293-294.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gentner TQ, Margoliash D. Neuronal populations and single cells representing learned auditory objects. Nature. 2003;424(6949):669-674.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaplan CD, Laprade L, Winston F. Transcription elongation factors repress transcription initiation from cryptic sites. Science. 2003;301(5636):1096-1099.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bateman AR, El-Hachem N, Beck AH, Aerts HJWL, Haibe-Kains B. Importance of collection in gene set enrichment analysis of drug response in cancer cell lines. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4092.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Freeman RL. Fundamentals of Telecommunications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Lin PCK. Logic Synthesis for Genetic Diseases: Modeling Disease Behavior Using Boolean Networks. (Khatri SP, ed.). Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Nyporko AY. DNA Dependent DNA Polymerases as Targets for Low-Weight Molecular Inhibitors: State of Art and Prospects of Rational Design. In: Gorb L, Kuz’min V, Muratov E, eds. Application of Computational Techniques in Pharmacy and Medicine. Springer Netherlands; 2014:95-135.

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 Neuro-Oncology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Let’s Call It: 30 Years Of Above Average Temperatures Means The Climate Has Changed. IFLScience. February 26, 2015.

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. Provisions of S. 821, a Bill To Provide for Authorization of Appropriations for the Federal Communications Commission. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Virchez Azuara A. A Human Resource Perspective on the Development of Workforce Agility. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 2015.

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

Schwartz J. Forecast Hints That Hurricane Matthew Could Return. New York Times. October 7, 2016:A11.

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	Neuro-Oncology
Abbreviation	Neuro. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	1522-8517
ISSN (online)	1523-5866
Scope	Cancer Research Clinical Neurology Oncology