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

Pincus P. PHASE TRANSITIONS: Y’s and Ends. Science. 290(5495), 1307–1308 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams BRG, Sen GC. Immunology. A viral on/off switch for interferon. Science. 300(5622), 1100–1101 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Dillingham MS, Spies M, Kowalczykowski SC. RecBCD enzyme is a bipolar DNA helicase. Nature. 423(6942), 893–897 (2003).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chunyu T, Xiujun P, Zhengjun F, Xia Z, Feihu Z. Corneal collagen cross-linking in keratoconus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sci. Rep. 4, 5652 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Varrall G. Making Telecoms Work. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

van der Linden WJ, Glas CAW, editors. Elements of Adaptive Testing. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Khalil A, Bowles L, O’Brien P. Systemic Thromboembolism in Pregnancy: Venous Thromboembolism. In: Disorders of Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Pregnancy: A Guide to Management. Cohen H, O’Brien P (Eds.), Springer, London, 51–69 (2012).

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. Enormous Hole In The Universe May Not Be The Only One [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/enormous-hole-universe-may-not-be-only-one/.

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. Analysis of Replacing Existing DOA Computer System. 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

Oakes AC. States in Crisis: How Governments Respond to Domestic Unrest. (2006).

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

Vecsey G. A Light in Captivity, and a Subject for Writing. New York Times, B11 (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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