Style Request: The Oncologist

Noemi Schmidt
I need to change my bibliography for a submission to The Oncologist.
Has anyone done that before?
How should I do that?

Here you can an article with a bibliography the way mine should be (number 16 and 19 are internet pages):
http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/early/2011/08/31/theoncologist.2011-0105.long

It is a variation of the Vancouver style.
The footnotes in the text look like this example:
[3]

In the Bibliography the references look like this:
3 [the first 3 authors, last name and first letter of first name, divided by commas] et al. [title]. [journal name] [year];[volume number]:[first page number]-[last page number].

Example:
3 Soverini S, Mertinelli G, Iacobucci I et al. Imatinib mesylate for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2008;8:853-864.

If the journal name is The Oncologist, it will be written in italic and bold. If it is NOT The Oncologist it is neither written in bold nor in italic.

Internet references:
4 [title of the guidelines or procedure or...], version [date or year of the version]. Available at [internet page], accessed [Month] [day in number], [year of accession].

Example:
4 National Cancer Institute. Sleep Disorders (PDQ). Management. Available at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/supportivecare/sleepdisorders/HealthProfessional/page4#Section_74, accessed August 10, 2011.

Thank you very much for your help!
  • adamsmith
    will take a while. If you can tell me more precisely what the actual _differences_ between Vancouver (brackets) and the style are I'll be faster.
  • Noemi Schmidt
    Differences from Vancouver with Brackets:
    - No punctuation after the number of the reference
    - after the first 3 authors: et al.
    - then title (like in the vancouver style)
    - then dot (like in the vancouver style)
    - NO place (in the Vancouver style they put a publication place)
    - the name of the journal (like in the vancouver style)
    - space (in the Vancouver style they put punctuation)
    - year of the publication
    - semicolon (NO dot)
    - NO space
    - volume number (in the Vancouver style there is no volume number)
    - colon (in the Vancouver style there is no colon)
    - first page
    - hyphen
    - last page (there is NO "p." in front like in the Vancouver style)

    hope that helps
  • NoemiSchmidt
    Here you can find more examples for references:
    http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/misc/TO_references.pdf
  • NoemiSchmidt
    I have found various other similar styles:

    Emergency Medicine Journal
    Heart
    Journal of Medical Ethics
    Occupational and Enviromental Medicine
    Practical Neurology
    Sexually Transmitted Infections
    The Lancet

    These are the differences to The Lancet:

    - after 3 authors: et al.
    - if less than 3 authors, after the last author: dot
    - space
    - title (same as in The Lancet)
    - dot (NO comma like in the Lancet)
    - space
    - NO place (in The Lancet they put the place)
    - Journal (NOT bold NOR italic)
    - NO comma (in The Lancet there is a comma here)
    - year (same as in The Lancet)
    - semicolon (same as in The Lancet)
    - NO space (in the Lancet there is a space here)
    - volume number (NOT bold NOR italic)
    - colon (same as in The Lancet)
    - NO space (in the Lancet there is a space here)
    - first page (same as in The Lancet)
    - hyphen (same as in The Lancet)
    - last page (same as in The Lancet)
    - dot (same as in The Lancet)

    Differences for internet pages to the Lancet:
    - Title
    - dot
    - space
    - year
    - dot
    - space
    - Available at (difference to The Lancet)
    - space
    - internet page
    - comma
    - accessed (NO brackets like in The Lancet)
    - space
    - date (example: October 9, 2008) (in The Lancet the date is different)
    - dot (there is no dot in The Lancet)

    Hope that helps.

    Thank you for your help.
  • NoemiSchmidt
    One more thing:
    The title to the Bibliography is REFERENCES (in The Lancet it is Bibliography).

    Thank you.
  • adamsmith
    OK, should show up on the repository any minute now.
  • NoemiSchmidt
    Thank you very much!! That's great!
    I will check it out as soon as it shows up.
  • adamsmith
    up now as "The Oncologist".
  • NoemiSchmidt
    Thank you very much!

    Unfortunately it doesn't work, it says there is an error:

    COMMAND: app(u'/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app/').make (new=k.Word_style, with_properties=k.style_type: k.style_type_paragraph, k.base_style: k.style_normal, k.name_local: 'Bibliography'}, at=(u'/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app/').active_document)

    What does that mean?

    Thank you for your help.
  • adamsmith
    sorry about that. Try now.
    If you still have problems, please describe your exact software set-up (system, word processor, Zotero version, plugin version).

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