How to format your references using the Oncogenesis citation style

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

Charo RA. SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT. Yellow lights for emerging technologies. Science 2015; 349: 384–385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowrance WW, Collins FS. Ethics. Identifiability in genomic research. Science 2007; 317: 600–602.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson DG, Burdick JA, Langer R. Materials science. Smart biomaterials. Science 2004; 305: 1923–1924.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

van Dijk EL, Chen CL, d’Aubenton-Carafa Y, Gourvennec S, Kwapisz M, Roche V et al. XUTs are a class of Xrn1-sensitive antisense regulatory non-coding RNA in yeast. Nature 2011; 475: 114–117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Giannini F, Leuzzi G. Nonlinear Microwave Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

Wasserman T. Depathologizing Psychopathology: The Neuroscience of Mental Illness and Its Treatment. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Boer J, Hoek A, Elzerman H. Social Desirability: Consumer Aspects. In: Aiking H, Boer J de, Vereijken J (eds). Sustainable Protein Production and Consumption: Pigs or Peas? Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2006, pp 99–127.

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 Oncogenesis.

Blog post

Andrew E. Anthrax Toxin Could Be Used To Deliver Cancer Drugs. IFLScience. 2014.

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. Electronic Government: Better Information Needed on Agencies’ Implementation of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haxton SA. Student Risk Perception in the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory. 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

Feeney K. QUICK BITE/Newark; The Best of Brazil. New York Times. 2006; : 14NJ19.

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	Oncogenesis
Abbreviation	Oncogenesis
ISSN (online)	2157-9024
Scope	Cancer Research Molecular Biology