How to format your references using the Breast Cancer Research and Treatment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 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

Franson JD (2013) Physics. Beating classical computing without a quantum computer. Science 339:767–768

A journal article with 2 authors

Khudiyev T, Bayindir M (2014) Superenhancers: novel opportunities for nanowire optoelectronics. Sci Rep 4:7505

A journal article with 3 authors

Rychert CA, Fischer KM, Rondenay S (2005) A sharp lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary imaged beneath eastern North America. Nature 436:542–545

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sardanyés J, Simó C, Martínez R, et al (2014) Variability in mutational fitness effects prevents full lethal transitions in large quasispecies populations. Sci Rep 4:4625

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCrary SA (2009) Mastering Financial Accounting Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cowley FRS SWH, Southwood D, Mitton S (2015) Magnetospheric Plasma Physics: The Impact of Jim Dungey’s Research, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ozel I, Atiyas İ (2011) Regulatory Diffusion in Turkey: A Cross-sectoral Assessment. In: Çetin T, Oğuz F (eds) The Political Economy of Regulation in Turkey. Springer, New York, NY, pp 51–73

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 Research and Treatment.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Archaeologist Claims To Have Found Legendary Throne From Trojan War. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologist-claims-found-legendary-throne-trojan-war/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2003) School Meal Programs: Revenue and Expense Information from Selected States. 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

Haneef NJ (2009) A synthesized conceptual framework for the design of user interfaces of interactive information products. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Green LV (2006) Beds of State. New York Times 1413

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 Research and Treatment
Abbreviation	Breast Cancer Res. Treat.
ISSN (print)	0167-6806
ISSN (online)	1573-7217
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology