How to format your references using the Breast Cancer Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Breast Cancer Management. 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

Moseley SH. Astronomy. The other half of the universe? Science. 346(6210), 696–697 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Scotland RW, Sanderson MJ. The significance of few versus many in the tree of life. Science. 303(5658), 643 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Daigaku Y, Davies AA, Ulrich HD. Ubiquitin-dependent DNA damage bypass is separable from genome replication. Nature. 465(7300), 951–955 (2010).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cheng H-C, Skehan BM, Campellone KG, Leong JM, Rosen MK. Structural mechanism of WASP activation by the enterohaemorrhagic E. coli effector EspF(U). Nature. 454(7207), 1009–1013 (2008).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minoli D. Mobile Video with Mobile IPv6. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rowiński P, editor. Experimental and Computational Solutions of Hydraulic Problems: 32nd International School of Hydraulics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sengupta N, Grant MB, Caballero S, Boulton ME. Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Vascular Development and Ocular Neovascularization. In: Retinal Vascular Disease. Joussen AM, Gardner TW, Kirchhof B, Ryan SJ (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 78–96 (2007).

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 Management.

Blog post

Carpineti A. The Strongest Evidence That Black Holes Are Not Completely Black [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/the-strongest-evidence-that-black-holes-are-not-completely-black/.

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

Government Accountability Office. Telecommunications: 1991 Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McKinney S. An analysis of the influence of No Child Left Behind and Arizona Learns on middle -school principal leadership behaviors and responsibilities. (2008).

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

Feeney K. Fire Up the Grill. New York Times, NJ8 (2009).

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 Management
Abbreviation	Breast Cancer Manag.
ISSN (print)	1758-1923
ISSN (online)	1758-1931
Scope	Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging