How to format your references using the Rare Cancers and Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rare Cancers 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. van Woesik R. Comment on “Coral reef death during the 1997 Indian Ocean dipole linked to Indonesian wildfires.” Science. 2004;303:1297; author reply 1297.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Foulger GR, Natland JH. Geology. Is “hotspot” volcanism a consequence of plate tectonics? Science. 2003;300:921–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Quinto-Su PA, Suzuki M, Ohl C-D. Fast temperature measurement following single laser-induced cavitation inside a microfluidic gap. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5445.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. He R-H, Hashimoto M, Karapetyan H, Koralek JD, Hinton JP, Testaud JP, et al. From a single-band metal to a high-temperature superconductor via two thermal phase transitions. Science. 2011;331:1579–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sommers-Flanagan J, Sommers-Flanagan R. Tough Kids Cool Counseling. Alexandria, VA, USA: American Counseling Association; 2015.

An edited book

1. Albach H, Meffert H, Pinkwart A, Reichwald R, editors. Management of Permanent Change. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mpofu E, Ruhode N, Mhaka-Mutepfa M, January J, Mapfumo J. Resilience Among Zimbabwean Youths with Orphanhood. In: Theron LC, Liebenberg L, Ungar M, editors. Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 67–79.

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 Rare Cancers and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Antibody Therapy That Prevents Neurological Damage In Mice Could Help With Alzheimer’s [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antibody-therapy/. 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. Aircraft Noise: Status and Management of FAA’s West Coast Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 May. Report No.: RCED-89-84.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Manners AT. Influence of transformational, autocratic, democratic, and laissez -faire leadership principles on the effectiveness of religious leaders [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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. Shear MD, Landler M. U.S. Withholding Its Endorsement on Climate Pact. New York Times. 2017 May 27;A1.

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	Rare Cancers and Therapy
ISSN (print)	2195-6014
ISSN (online)	2195-6022
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