How to format your references using the Breast Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Breast 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. Mervis J. Behind the numbers. Salaries pump up biomedical inflation. Science. 2015;349:225.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Eisenstein JP, Macdonald AH. Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in bilayer electron systems. Nature. 2004;432:691–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gaudelli NM, Long DH, Townsend CA. β-Lactam formation by a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase during antibiotic biosynthesis. Nature. 2015;520:383–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ishiba T, Nagahara M, Nakagawa T, Sato T, Ishikawa T, Uetake H, et al. Periostin suppression induces decorin secretion leading to reduced breast cancer cell motility and invasion. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7069.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sillar KT, Picton LD, Heitler WJ. The Neuroethology of Predation and Escape. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Kachanov M, Sevostianov I, editors. Effective Properties of Heterogeneous Materials. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Svinin M, Goncharenko I. Models of and Experiments with Reaching Tasks in Haptic Virtual Environments. In: Cooper EW, Kryssanov VV, Ogawa H, Brewster S, editors. Haptic and Audio Interaction Design: 6th International Workshop, HAID 2011, Kusatsu, Japan, August 25-26, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 32–41.

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 Breast Cancer.

Blog post

1. Fang J. How A Drop of Seawater on Graphene Generates Electricity [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-drop-seawater-graphene-generates-electricity/

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 on EEO Discrimination Complaints. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Nov. Report No.: GGD-93-6R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lambert M. Generational Differences in the Workplace: The Perspectives of Three Generations on Career Mobility [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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. Lichtblau E. N.R.A.’s Wins in Congress Grow With Lobbyist’s Role. New York Times. 2016 Jan 29;A19.

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	Breast Cancer
Abbreviation	Breast Cancer
ISSN (print)	1340-6868
ISSN (online)	1880-4233
Scope	General Medicine Oncology Pharmacology (medical) Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging