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

Sethmann I. Materials science. Creating flexible calcite fibers with proteins. Science. 339(6125), 1281–1282 (2013).

A journal article with 2 authors

Rizzoli SO, Betz WJ. The structural organization of the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles. Science. 303(5666), 2037–2039 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Santos FC, Santos MD, Pacheco JM. Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games. Nature. 454(7201), 213–216 (2008).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li D, Yan Z, Lu L, Jiang H, Wang W. Pleiotropy of the de novo-originated gene MDF1. Sci. Rep. 4, 7280 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holt J. The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford.

An edited book

Wu TY. Advances in Ultrasound Technology for Environmental Remediation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Kubler S, Derigent W, Rondeau É, Thomas A, Främling K. Embedded Data on Intelligent Products – Impact on Real-Time Applications. In: Trends in Mobile Web Information Systems: MobiWIS 2013 International Workshops, Paphos, Cyprus, August 26-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Matera M, Rossi G (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 25–34 (2013).

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. What Magic Mushrooms Do To Your Body And Brain. IFLScience (2016).

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. Department of Energy: Problems in the Management and Use of Supercomputers. 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

To KS. Loss of Promoter Methylation is Correlated with mRNA Induction of Senescence Upregulated Gene UGT78D1. (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

Barnard A. U.S. Coalition Munition Use Is Scrutinized In Syria. New York Times, A8 (2017).

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