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

Russo E. New lease of life for tropical medicine. Nature. 2004 Apr;428(6986):966–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shu J-J, Wang Q-W. Beyond Parrondo’s paradox. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb;4:4244.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bento G, Ogawa A, Sommer RJ. Co-option of the hormone-signalling module dafachronic acid-DAF-12 in nematode evolution. Nature. 2010 Jul;466(7305):494–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee J-W, Kang Y-W, Lee J, Lee Y-W. Enrichment by supernovae in globular clusters with multiple populations. Nature. 2009 Nov;462(7272):480–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baber RL. The Language of Mathematics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Santoianni F, editor. The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy: A Philosophical Thematic Atlas. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Knauth S, Kaufmann L, Jost C, Kistler R, Klapproth A. The iLoc Ultrasound Indoor Localization System at the EvAAL 2011 Competition. In: Chessa S, Knauth S, editors. Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking. Indoor Localization and Tracking: International Competition, EvAAL 2011, Competition in Valencia, Spain, July 25-29, 2011, and Final Workshop in Lecce, Italy, September 26, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012; pp 52–64.

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

Andrew D. 60% Of Primate Species Now Threatened With Extinction, Says Major New Study [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Jan [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/60-of-primate-species-now-threatened-with-extinction-says-major-new-study/

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. Summary of Improvement Actions Taken by the Government Printing Office in the Utilization and Management of Automatic Data Processing Resources. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Joseph S. A comprehensive evaluation of a school system’s grow your own principal preparation program. 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

Vecsey G. Eusebio, Who Represented the Best of Soccer and of Portugal, Dies at 71. New York Times. 2014 Jan;B9.

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