How to format your references using the Breast Care citation style

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

Blow N. Nanotechnology: could it be a small world after all? Nature. 2008 Apr;452(7189):901–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hines PJ, Zahn LM. What’s bugging plants? Plant-microbe interactions. Introduction. Science. 2009 May;324(5928):741.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun J-Y, Wu X-S, Wu L-G. Single and multiple vesicle fusion induce different rates of endocytosis at a central synapse. Nature. 2002 May;417(6888):555–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mogera U, Sagade AA, George SJ, Kulkarni GU. Ultrafast response humidity sensor using supramolecular nanofibre and its application in monitoring breath humidity and flow. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb;4:4103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kissell J. Mac® Security Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Nishimura Y, Komaki R, editors. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy: Clinical Evidence and Techniques. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Miranda LS, Morandini AC, Marques AC. Do Staurozoa bloom? A review of stauromedusan population biology. In: Purcell J, Mianzan H, Frost JR, editors. Jellyfish Blooms IV: Interactions with humans and fisheries. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012; pp 57–67.

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 Care.

Blog post

Evans K. Women’s Importance In Space Science Recognized By New NASA Website [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Dec [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/womens-importance-in-space-flight-recognized-by-new-nasa-website/

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. Federal Acquisitions: Use of “Other Transaction” Agreements Limited and Mostly for Research and Development Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bennett AL. An Empirical Longitudinal Analysis of Agile Methodologies and Firm Financial Performance. 2019

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

Hartocollis A. Doctor Who Worked on Rivers Steps Down From Post at Medical Clinic. New York Times. 2014 Sep;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 Care
Abbreviation	Breast Care (Basel)
ISSN (print)	1661-3791
ISSN (online)	1661-3805
Scope	Oncology Surgery