Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO) Citation Style

rblanman
Could the JTO citation style be updated to exclude DOIs? I am not clever enough to follow the thread on how to remove doi's. Here is a sample citation from a 2016 article in JTO:
Dziadziuszko K, Szurowska E, Pienkowska J, et al.
Milliary brain metastases in a patient with ROS1-
rearranged lung adenocarcinoma: a case report.
J Thorac Oncol. 2014;9:e34–e36.
  • adamsmith
    Have you checked with the journal? Generally Elsevier tells us they prefer all submissions with DOIs, even if they don't show up in the published source.
    Also, the AMA manual, which JTO follows, does call for using DOIs when you consult articles online, which Zotero assumes is the case when you import them with DOI.
  • rblanman
    Yes, JTO does not include DOIs as in the example I cut and pasted from this month's issue above.
    Also the author instructions at the journal website give similar examples - http://www.jto.org/content/authorinfo#idp1378640 - there are no DOIs.
    This is true for every cancer or cardiology journal I have published in so I suspect that Elsevier is misleading as the journals are published by the respective medical societies not really by Elsevier, they just use Elsevier's distribution platform.
    Thanks Adam.
  • adamsmith
    So what's going on is that we get a list of journals following house styles from Elsevier and this journal is on it -- which makes sense, since Elsevier _is_ responsible for the typsetting which includes handling metadata for references -- so unless you actually get feedback from the journal that they don't want the DOIs, we're going to keep it.

    (Also, note that the instructions you link to are Elsevier's default instructions for authors, which include "use of the DOI is encouraged.")
  • DWL-SDCA
    It is worth repeating that even if the DOIs do not appear in article bibliographies/reference lists; very many publishers want DOIs in the manuscript. Having the DOIs greatly assists reviewers of your manuscript reach the cited articles to verify that they actually support your referenced statement. You would be surprised and disappointed at how many times I review manuscripts where the cited article does _not_ support the authors' assertions.

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