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

Mishra J (2014) Having it all. Science 345:1090

A journal article with 2 authors

Csete ME, Doyle JC (2002) Reverse engineering of biological complexity. Science 295:1664–1669

A journal article with 3 authors

Bandfield JL, Glotch TD, Christensen PR (2003) Spectroscopic identification of carbonate minerals in the martian dust. Science 301:1084–1087

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jackson RB, Berthrong ST, Cook CW, et al (2004) Comment on “A reservoir of nitrate beneath desert soils.” Science 304:51; author reply 51

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamowicz Z, Zbierski P (1997) Logic of Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zereini F, Wiseman CLS (2015) Platinum Metals in the Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Abidi K, Xu J-X (2015) Discrete-Time Iterative Learning Control. In: Xu J-X (ed) Advanced Discrete-Time Control: Designs and Applications. Springer, Singapore, pp 109–144

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

Hamilton K (2015) A Hen Laid A Giant Egg With Something Pretty Strange Inside. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hen-laid-egg-within-egg-find-out-how/. 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 (1973) Progress and Problems in Achieving Objectives of School Lunch Program. 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

Bailey KM (2017) A Phenomenological Study of How Biblical Spiritual Disciplines Influence Women’s Character and Leadership Practices in Christian Faith-based Institutions in Higher Education in North America. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Barron J (2017) Fitzgerald, Princeton and a Thoroughly Fictitious Theft. New York Times A15

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