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. Greene M. Policy. A force for peace in the Middle East. Science. 2008;322:1192.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Michalski JR, Bleacher JE. Supervolcanoes within an ancient volcanic province in Arabia Terra, Mars. Nature. 2013;502:47–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Shoemaker CJ, Eyler DE, Green R. Dom34:Hbs1 promotes subunit dissociation and peptidyl-tRNA drop-off to initiate no-go decay. Science. 2010;330:369–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Efeyan A, Garcia-Cao I, Herranz D, Velasco-Miguel S, Serrano M. Tumour biology: Policing of oncogene activity by p53. Nature. 2006;443:159.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Balan V, Neagu M. Jet Single-Time Lagrange Geometry and Its Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Martín J-F, García-Estrada C, Zeilinger S, editors. Biosynthesis and Molecular Genetics of Fungal Secondary Metabolites. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Séguy I, Buchet L. Age at Death: Current Approaches and Methods. In: Buchet L, editor. Handbook of Palaeodemography. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 85–98.

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. Neanderthals Survived Early Contact With Humans. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Status of Efforts to Deal With Personnel Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Oct. Report No.: AIMD/GGD-99-14.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Walker M. Industry - higher education partnerships: A case study analysis of learning together [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

1. Saslow L. Babylon Supervisor Wants Town to Go Green. New York Times. 2006 Nov 26;14LI2.

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

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