How to format your references using the Targeted Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Targeted Oncology. 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. Marshall E. A sinister plot or victim of politics? Science. 2000;289:571.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jacob Z, Shalaev VM. Physics. Plasmonics goes quantum. Science. 2011;334:463–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McGaha TL, Sorrentino B, Ravetch JV. Restoration of tolerance in lupus by targeted inhibitory receptor expression. Science. 2005;307:590–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Negrete OA, Levroney EL, Aguilar HC, Bertolotti-Ciarlet A, Nazarian R, Tajyar S, et al. EphrinB2 is the entry receptor for Nipah virus, an emergent deadly paramyxovirus. Nature. 2005;436:401–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Equipment Testing Procedures Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Trayed and Packed Columns. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Tambouris E, Macintosh A, Glassey O, editors. Electronic Participation: Second IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 29 – September 2, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Boucher J-P, Denuit M, Guillén M. Modelling of Insurance Claim Count with Hurdle Distribution for Panel Data. In: Minguez R, Sarabia J-M, Balakrishnan N, Arnold BC, editors. Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2008. p. 45–59.

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 Targeted Oncology.

Blog post

1. Hamilton K. Baby Elephant Reunited With Mother Years After Being Kidnapped [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-elephant-reunited-mother/. 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. Need for Improved Controls for Identifying and Correcting Safety Defects on Light Aircraft. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Jun. Report No.: B-164497(1).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gonzales DS. Identifying factors and quantifying their impact on transportation costs of pre-processes biomass [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2012.

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. de la MERCED MJ. Spotify Is Said to Favor Direct Listing on N.Y.S.E. Over Public Offering. New York Times. 2017 May 12;B2.

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	Targeted Oncology
Abbreviation	Target. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	1776-2596
ISSN (online)	1776-260X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology Pharmacology (medical)