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

Villeneuve DM. Physics. Toward creating a Rutherford atom. Science 307(5716), 1730–1731 (2005).

A journal article with 2 authors

Brasier M, Antcliffe J. Paleobiology. Decoding the Ediacaran enigma. Science 305(5687), 1115–1117 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Weeks AR, Marec F, Breeuwer JA. A mite species that consists entirely of haploid females. Science 292(5526), 2479–2482 (2001).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Castelo-Branco M, Goebel R, Neuenschwander S, Singer W. Neural synchrony correlates with surface segregation rules. Nature 405(6787), 685–689 (2000).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramsinghani M. The Business of Venture Capital. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014).

An edited book

Linkov I, Steevens J (Eds.). Nanomaterials: Risks and Benefits. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2009).

A chapter in an edited book

Boughareb D, Farah N. Toward a Web Search Personalization Approach Based on Temporal Context. In: Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications: International Conference, DICTAP 2011, Dijon, France, June 21-23, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Cherifi H, Zain JM, El-Qawasmeh E (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 33–44 (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

Hamilton K. ‘Here’s What Would Happen To Your Brain If You Took A Trip To Mars’ (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/your-brain-mars/.

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Needs to Improve Its Decisionmaking Process for Its Route and Service Proposals, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2002).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Charpentier DT. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, (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

Pilon M. Running the World With Eyes Wide Open, (2012).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

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