How to format your references using the Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy (RPOR). 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

Knight J. Physical sciences lose ground as US shifts towards biology. Nature 2001;412(6844):259.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gutierrez MP., Lee LP. Engineering. Multiscale design and integration of sustainable building functions. Science 2013;341(6143):247–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pickrell JK., Gilad Y., Pritchard JK. Comment on “Widespread RNA and DNA sequence differences in the human transcriptome.” Science 2012;335(6074):1302; author reply 1302.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Koshino M., Tanaka T., Solin N., Suenaga K., Isobe H., Nakamura E. Imaging of single organic molecules in motion. Science 2007;316(5826):853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sato T., Kammen DM., Duan B., et al. Smart Grid Standards, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Ord A. Fundamentals of Computational Geoscience: Numerical Methods and Algorithms, vol. 122, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown KA., Simpson ER. Estrogen Biosynthesis. In: Simpson ER, editor. Obesity and Breast Cancer: The Role of Dysregulated Estrogen Metabolism, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 17–35.

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 Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy.

Blog post

Fang J. Prints From Duck-Billed Dino Herd Found in Alaska. IFLScience. Available in: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/prints-duck-billed-dino-herd-found-alaska/ [cited 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Higher Education and Disability: Improved Federal Enforcement Needed to Better Protect Students’ Rights to Testing Accommodations, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lake AD. Hepatic stress response mechanisms in progressive human nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2013.

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

Schulman M. Rallying Her Troops To the Red Carpet. New York Times 2017:ST9.

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	Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy
Abbreviation	Rep. Pract. Oncol. Radiother.
ISSN (print)	1507-1367
ISSN (online)	2083-4640
Scope	Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging