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

Levitt P. Neuroscience. Sealing cortical cell fate. Science. 303(5654), 48–49 (2004).

A journal article with 2 authors

Artis D, Spits H. The biology of innate lymphoid cells. Nature. 517(7534), 293–301 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

Weng J-K, Philippe RN, Noel JP. The rise of chemodiversity in plants. Science. 336(6089), 1667–1670 (2012).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wisniewska J, Xu J, Seifertová D, et al. Polar PIN localization directs auxin flow in plants. Science. 312(5775), 883 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dye FJ. Dictionary of Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine, and Translational Medicine. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Kielanowski P, Ali ST, Odesskii A, Odzijewicz A, Schlichenmaier M, Voronov T, editors. Geometric Methods in Physics: XXXI Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 24–30, 2012. Springer, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Jones C, Jia X. Using a Domain Specific Language for Lightweight Model-Driven Development. In: Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering: 9th International Conference, ENASE 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, April 28-30, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Maciaszek LA, Filipe J (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 46–62 (2015).

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. Failed Supernova Forms Black Hole Without Explosion [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/failed-supernova-forms-black-hole-without-explosion/.

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. Discretionary Grants: Education Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Grants Monitoring. 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

Brown LT. Identifying potential co-repressors associated with dexamethasone-induced repression of the MUC5AC gene. (2009).

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

Belson K, Pilon M. Round One in Sprints to Jamaica; Briton Takes 10,000. New York Times, SP3 (2012).

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

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