How to format your references using the Oncology Letters citation style

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

Thompson JN: Evolution. The role of coevolution. Science 335: 410–411, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim SW and Ahn J-P: Polycrystalline nanowires of gadolinium-doped ceria via random alignment mediated by supercritical carbon dioxide. Sci Rep 3: 1606, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang S, Lee C-TA and Yin Q-Z: Missing lead and high ³He/⁴He in ancient sulfides associated with continental crust formation. Sci Rep 4: 5314, 2014.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Boon J-P, Casti J, Djerassi C, et al.: A concrete example. Nature 444: 122, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jarry P and Beneat JN: Microwave Amplifier and Active Circuit Design Using the Real Frequency Technique. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

Ghosh TK: Energy Resources and Systems: Volume 2: Renewable Resources. (Prelas MA (ed.)). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Stark F: Corporate Criminal Liability in Scotland: The Problems with a Piecemeal Approach. In: Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk. Pieth M and Ivory R (eds.) Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp113–146, 2011.

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 Letters.

Blog post

Hamilton K: A Hen Laid A Giant Egg With Something Pretty Strange Inside. IFLScience, 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: Review of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Actions To Carry Out the Provisions of the National Cooley’s Anemia Control Act. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Agbi ES: Shadow economy and the related issues of tax evasion: A comparative analysis among Canadian workers., 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

Gustines GG: You Too Can Learn to Draw, Online. New York Times: F3, 2015.

In-text citations

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

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 Letters
Abbreviation	Oncol. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1792-1074
ISSN (online)	1792-1082
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology