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.

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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.

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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

Matsuda R. Materials chemistry: Selectivity from flexibility. Nature. 2014 May;509(7501):434–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dietl GP, Vermeij GJ. Comment on “Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates.” Science. 2006 Nov;314(5801):925; author reply 925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petersen J, Volz J, Rauschenbeutel A. Nanophotonics. Chiral nanophotonic waveguide interface based on spin-orbit interaction of light. Science. 2014 Oct;346(6205):67–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Oguri K, Kawamura K, Sakaguchi A, Toyofuku T, Kasaya T, Murayama M, et al. Hadal disturbance in the Japan Trench induced by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1915.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrozzi S. Practical Instrumental Analysis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Oestern H-J, Trentz O, Uranues S, editors. General Trauma Care and Related Aspects: Trauma Surgery II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Fend F, Quintanilla-Martínez L. The Application of Molecular Techniques on Bone Marrow Trephines. In: Anagnostou D, Matutes E, editors. Bone Marrow Lymphoid Infiltrates: Diagnosis and Clinical Impact. London: Springer; 2012; pp 67–81.

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

Luntz S. Vaccine Means Safe Sex For Koalas [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vaccine-means-safe-sex-koalas/

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. Truck Safety: Information on Driver Training. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edson C. A Mixed-Methods Investigation on Contributing Factors to the Political Efficacy of Eighth Grade Students in a Suburban School District in Missouri. 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

Murphy MJO. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times. 2015 Jun;C25.

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