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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Breast Cancer Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

1. Palmer T. Atmospheric science. Record-breaking winters and global climate change. Science. 2014;344:803–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. McInerney JO, O’Connell MJ. Evolutionary developmental biology: Ghost locus appears. Nature. 2014;514:570–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pollack SE, Dries D, Hulet RG. Universality in three- and four-body bound states of ultracold atoms. Science. 2009;326:1683–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yin H, Pruyne D, Huffaker TC, Bretscher A. Myosin V orientates the mitotic spindle in yeast. Nature. 2000;406:1013–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stamp M. Information Security. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Cozzens SE, Wetmore J, editors. Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Da̧browski BP, Rudawy P, Karlický M. Millisecond Radio Spikes in the Decimetric Band. In: Marqué C, Nindos A, editors. Energy Storage and Release through the Solar Activity Cycle: Models Meet Radio Observations. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 71–86.

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.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Snake In A Christmas Tree Confirms World’s Suspicions About Australia [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/snake-in-a-christmas-tree-confirms-worlds-suspicions-about-australia/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Biotechnology: Information on Prices of Genetically Modified Seeds in the United States and Argentina. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Jan. Report No.: RCED/NSIAD-00-55.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Janice J. Preschoolers’ Prosocial Responding to Social Others’ Distress [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

1. Walsh MW. A Town That Backed a Failed Project Refuses to Pay. New York Times. 2012 Jun 26;B6.

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
ISSN (online)	1465-542X
Scope