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

Cyranoski D. Neutrino physics: tanked up and ready for action. Nature. 2002;420(6917):737.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hedstrom L, Frey PA. Robert H. Abeles (1926-2000). Nature. 2000 Oct;407(6806):854.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karlseder J, Smogorzewska A, de Lange T. Senescence induced by altered telomere state, not telomere loss. Science. 2002 Mar;295(5564):2446–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bormuth V, Varga V, Howard J, Schäffer E. Protein friction limits diffusive and directed movements of kinesin motors on microtubules. Science. 2009 Aug;325(5942):870–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper N, Forrest K, Cramp P. Essential Guide to Acute Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Park N-G, Grätzel M, Miyasaka T, editors. Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics: From Fundamentals to Device Architectures. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Draskoczy B. Fitness Distance Correlation and Search Space Analysis for Permutation Based Problems. In: Cowling P, Merz P, editors. Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 10th European Conference, EvoCOP 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 47–58.

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. Why Bad Moods Are Good For You: The Surprising Benefits Of Sadness [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-bad-moods-are-good-for-you-the-surprising-benefits-of-sadness/

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. Aviation Services: Automation and Consolidation of Flight Service Stations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Naro A. The effects of the structural components of 4-H residential summer programs on the achievement of the essential elements of positive youth development and the acquisition of targeted life skills. 2016

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

Kovaleski SF, Moynihan C. Well Before Scandals, Cosby’s Wife Faulted Media Treatment of Blacks. New York Times. 2015 Jan;C1.

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