How to format your references using the Oncogene citation style

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

Milani A. Astronomy. Extraterrestrial material--virtual or real hazards? Science 2003; 300: 1882–1883.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu Z, Curtin WA. The origins of high hardening and low ductility in magnesium. Nature 2015; 526: 62–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Araki H, Cooper B, Blouin MS. Genetic effects of captive breeding cause a rapid, cumulative fitness decline in the wild. Science 2007; 318: 100–103.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang W, Tang M, Yang H, Younghae Do, Lai Y-C, Lee G. Asymmetrically interacting spreading dynamics on complex layered networks. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 5097.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee JYB. Scalable Continuous Media Streaming Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

Evgen’ev MB. Heat Shock Proteins and Whole Body Adaptation to Extreme Environments. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Kussul E, Baidyk T, Wunsch DC. Permutation Coding Technique for Image Recognition System. In: Baidyk T, Wunsch DC (eds). Neural Networks and Micromechanics. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010, pp 47–73.

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 Oncogene.

Blog post

Andrew E. Here’s What Ariel Would Look Like If She Evolved In The Deep Ocean. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/heres-what-disney-princess-ariel-would-look-if-she-evolved-different-ocean/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. NASA: Compliance with Cost Limits. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DeLutis-Eichenberger AN. El proceso semiótico de un héroe decimonónico: Un estudio en torno a los “textos-tumbas” de Andrés Bello. 2010.

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. Court Blocks Plans for New Gas Plant in New Jersey. New York Times. 2008; : B4.

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	Oncogene
ISSN (online)	1476-5594
Scope