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

Lander ES. Genome-sequencing anniversary. The accelerator. Science. 331(6020), 1024 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

McPherson MS, Schapiro MO. Education. Funding roller coaster for public higher education. Science. 302(5648), 1157 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Boyvat M, Hafner C, Leuthold J. Wireless control and selection of forces and torques--towards wireless engines. Sci. Rep. 4, 5681 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

McKee MG, Layman JM, Cashion MP, Long TE. Phospholipid nonwoven electrospun membranes. Science. 311(5759), 353–355 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernando A, Worrall ST, Ekmekcioǧlu E. 3DTV. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Badica C, Mangioni G, Carchiolo V, Burdescu DD, editors. Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2008, Catania, Italy, 2008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sadiki A, Ahmadi W, Chrigui M. Toward the Impact of Fuel Evaporation-Combustion Interaction on Spray Combustion in Gas Turbine Combustion Chambers. Part II: Influence of High Combustion Temperature on Spray Droplet Evaporation. In: Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Diluted Spray Turbulent Combustion: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Turbulent Spray Combustion. Merci B, Roekaerts D, Sadiki A (Eds.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 111–132 (2011).

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

Andrew E. Cancer Drug Promises To Break Down Barrier To HIV Cure [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cancer-drug-promises-break-down-barrier-hiv-cure/.

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. Airport Noise: FAA’s Enforcement of Noise Rules at National Airport. 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

Giuseffi FG. Investigation of the Influence of the Socratic Method on Leadership Skills among JROTC Cadet Leaders at a Military Boarding School. (2014).

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

Shpigel B. Fitzpatrick’s Steady Hand Is Upended by a Late Blow. New York Times, D6 (2016).

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