How to format your references using the Onkologie citation style

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

Brydson R. Materials analysis: Good vibrations. Nature. 2014 Oct;514(7521):177–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kozlova T, Thummel CS. Essential roles for ecdysone signaling during Drosophila mid-embryonic development. Science. 2003 Sep;301(5641):1911–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parr BT, Economou C, Herzon SB. A concise synthesis of (+)-batzelladine B from simple pyrrole-based starting materials. Nature. 2015 Sep;525(7570):507–10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhuang J, Yeoh WK, Cui X, Xu X, Du Y, Shi Z, et al. Unabridged phase diagram for single-phased FeSe(x)Te(1-x) thin films. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec;4:7273.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramsinghani M. The Business of Venture Capital. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Jakushokas R. Power Distribution Networks with On-Chip Decoupling Capacitors. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Devos AS, Meradji M, Blickman JG. The Small Bowel. In: Devos AS, Blickman JG, editors. Radiological Imaging of the Digestive Tract in Infants and Children. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008; pp 167–91.

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 Onkologie.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Mesmerizing New NASA Video Shows Their Latest Rocket At Work [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mesmerizing-new-nasa-video-shows-their-latest-rocket-at-work/

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. GAO Role in the Evaluation of Federally Funded Education Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alsubaihi SI. Challenges for women academic leaders to obtain senior leadership positions in higher education in Saudi Arabia. 2016

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. Bush Appeals to Justices on Detainees Case. New York Times. 2008 Feb;A17.

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	Onkologie
ISSN (print)	0378-584X
ISSN (online)	1423-0240
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