How to format your references using the BBA - Reviews on Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BBA - Reviews on 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	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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

G.C. Bower, Astronomy. Mining for the ephemeral, Science 318 (2007) 759–760.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Culjkovic-Kraljacic, K.L.B. Borden, Cell biology. Puzzled by PML, Science 330 (2010) 1183–1184.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Callender, I. Quinn, D. Tymoczko, Generalized voice-leading spaces, Science 320 (2008) 346–348.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Wang, D. Wei, K. He, H. Gong, P. Wang, Encapsulating urban traffic rhythms into road networks, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.R. Moeller, Executive’s Guide to IT Governance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

T. Özyer, K. Kianmehr, M. Tan, eds., Recent Trends in Information Reuse and Integration, Springer, Vienna, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.-W. Byun, Y. Sohn, E. Bertino, N. Li, Secure Anonymization for Incremental Datasets, in: W. Jonker, M. Petković (Eds.), Secure Data Management: Third VLDB Workshop, SDM 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 10-11, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 48–63.

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 BBA - Reviews on Cancer.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Worldwide Ban On GMO Crops Would Make Climate Change Worse, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worldwide-ban-gmo-crops-climate-change-worse/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Additional Cost Transparency and Design Criteria Needed for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Projects, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Le, Three-Power Power System State Estimation Using Extended Kalman Filter with CompactRIO Implementation, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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]

G. Johnson, What Made Him Tick, New York Times (2013) BR22.

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	BBA - Reviews on Cancer
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Rev. Cancer
ISSN (print)	0304-419X
Scope	Cancer Research Genetics Oncology