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]

J. Carmody, What if...?, Nature. 406 (2000) 349.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.R. Bandyopadhyay, J.C. Hansen, Breakup and then makeup: a predictive model of how cilia self-regulate hardness for posture control, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1956.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. van Os, G. Kenis, B.P.F. Rutten, The environment and schizophrenia, Nature. 468 (2010) 203–212.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y.-J. Jen, A. Lakhtakia, M.-J. Lin, W.-H. Wang, H.-M. Wu, H.-S. Liao, Metal/dielectric/metal sandwich film for broadband reflection reduction, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1672.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Chandler, The Science of ADHD, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

R. Manfredi, Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP): Biliary and Pancreatic Ducts, Springer, Milano, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Bubalo, Conditioning Regimens, in: R.T. Maziarz, S. Slater (Eds.), Blood and Marrow Transplant Handbook: Comprehensive Guide for Patient Care, Springer, New York, NY, 2011: pp. 39–49.

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]

E. Andrew, 9,000-Year-Old Case Of Ritualistic Beheading That May Be Oldest In Americas, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/9000-year-old-case-ritualistic-beheading-may-be-oldest-americas/ (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, Information Technology: Agriculture Needs to Strengthen Management Practices for Stabilizing and Modernizing Its Farm Program Delivery Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Mark, A peer mentorship program for youth transitioning out of foster care: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

A. Dollinger, E. Rosenberg, Foster Father Acquitted Of Sex Abuse Charges, New York Times. (2017) A23.

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

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