How to format your references using the Oncology and Therapy citation style

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

1. Urry M. Science and gender: Scientists must work harder on equality. Nature. 2015;528:471–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Goodson JL, Bass AH. Forebrain peptides modulate sexually polymorphic vocal circuitry. Nature. 2000;403:769–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Scaillet B, Pichavant M, Cioni R. Upward migration of Vesuvius magma chamber over the past 20,000 years. Nature. 2008;455:216–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zakharova K, Marzban G, de Vera J-P, Lorek A, Sterflinger K. Protein patterns of black fungi under simulated Mars-like conditions. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5114.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sinclair E. Volatility Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Docker MF, editor. Lampreys: Biology, Conservation and Control: Volume 1. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Paul WJ, Baumann C, Lutsyk P, Schmaltz S. Hardware. In: Baumann C, Lutsyk P, Schmaltz S, editors. System Architecture: An Ordinary Engineering Discipline. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 51–69.

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 Oncology and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Davis J. 80% Of Cervical Cancers Preventable With Latest HPV Vaccine [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/80-cervical-cancers-preventable-latest-hpv-vaccine/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Highway Safety: Research Continues on a Variety of Factors That Contribute to Motor Vehicle Crashes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Mar. Report No.: GAO-03-436.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Yao D. In situ activity of NAC11-7 roseobacters in coastal waters off the Chesapeake Bay based on ftsZ expression [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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

1. Rosenberg E. Acquitted, but Still Haunted by Jail and DNA Used Against Him. New York Times. 2017 May 17;A23.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Oncology and Therapy
Abbreviation	Oncol. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2366-1070
ISSN (online)	2366-1089
Scope