How to format your references using the Supportive Care in Cancer citation style

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

Allara DL (2005) A perspective on surfaces and interfaces. Nature 437:638–639

A journal article with 2 authors

Yoshida N, Toyoda S (2000) Constraining the atmospheric N2O budget from intramolecular site preference in N2O isotopomers. Nature 405:330–334

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonabeau E, Dorigo M, Theraulaz G (2000) Inspiration for optimization from social insect behaviour. Nature 406:39–42

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Raffaele S, Farrer RA, Cano LM, et al (2010) Genome evolution following host jumps in the Irish potato famine pathogen lineage. Science 330:1540–1543

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohos FÁ (2017) Confectionery and Chocolate Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Argamon S, Burns K, Dubnov S (2010) The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Luo T, Chen S, Xu G, Zhou J (2013) Sentiment Analysis. In: Chen S, Xu G, Zhou J (eds) Trust-based Collective View Prediction. Springer, New York, NY, pp 53–68

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 Supportive Care in Cancer.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Art And Science Combine To Reveal The Inner Workings Of Our DNA. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/art-and-science-combine-reveal-inner-workings-our-dna/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1983) Federal Agencies Could Save Time and Money With Better Computer Software Alternatives. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ward CS (2012) Movin’ Around. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Walsh MW (2012) California Debt Higher Than Earlier Estimates, a Task Force Reports. New York Times A18

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	Supportive Care in Cancer
Abbreviation	Support. Care Cancer
ISSN (print)	0941-4355
ISSN (online)	1433-7339
Scope	Oncology