How to format your references using the Oncology Signaling citation style

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

Young RC. The sounds of silence. Nature. 2000;408(6809):141.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pisharody SN, Jones RR. Probing two-electron dynamics of an atom. Science. 2004;303(5659):813-815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oberholzer S, Sukhorukov EV, Schönenberger C. Crossover between classical and quantum shot noise in chaotic cavities. Nature. 2002;415(6873):765-767.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

van Montfort RLM, Congreve M, Tisi D, Carr R, Jhoti H. Oxidation state of the active-site cysteine in protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B. Nature. 2003;423(6941):773-777.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nappi E, Peskov V. Imaging Gaseous Detectors and Their Applications. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Kwak D. Computation of Viscous Incompressible Flows. (Kiris CC, ed.). Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Hall A, Dorai K. Innovation systems of the future: what sort of entrepreneurs do we need? In: Coudel E, Devautour H, Soulard CT, Faure G, Hubert B, eds. Renewing Innovation Systems in Agriculture and Food: How to Go towards More Sustainability?. Wageningen Academic Publishers; 2013:77-86.

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 Signaling.

Blog post

Andrew D. Watch A Goblin Shark Take A Bite. IFLScience. December 20, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/goblin-shark-bite/

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 HEW Guidelines for Acquiring Automatic Data Processing Systems Under the Social Security Act. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gada KK. Numerical Analyses of Passive and Active Flow Control over a Micro Air Vehicle with an Optimized Airfoil. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Kelly DA. Weekender | Lenox, Mass. New York Times. March 19, 2004:F8.

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	Oncology Signaling
ISSN (print)	2542-5633
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