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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Lammert E. Developmental biology. Brain Wnts for blood vessels. Science. 2008 Nov;322(5905):1195–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schier AF, Shen MM. Nodal signalling in vertebrate development. Nature. 2000 Jan;403(6768):385–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson CH, Egli M, Stewart PL. Structural insights into a circadian oscillator. Science. 2008 Oct;322(5902):697–701.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liphardt J, Dumont S, Smith SB, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. Equilibrium information from nonequilibrium measurements in an experimental test of Jarzynski’s equality. Science. 2002 Jun;296(5574):1832–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis RA. Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment. Hoboken, New Jersey, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Johnson DJ, Agbényiga DL, Hitchcock RK, editors. Vulnerable Children: Global Challenges in Education, Health, Well-Being, and Child Rights. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Tozier WA. GP As If You Meant It: An Exercise for Mindful Practice. In: Riolo R, Worzel WP, Kotanchek M, Kordon A, editors. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XIII. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 59–78.

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. Smackdown! Venomous Fish Deal Drugs On Coral Reefs [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Mar

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. FAA Budget Policies and Practices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bockler T. Legal advocacy program for low-income children with disabilities: A grant proposal. 2014

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

MacFARQUHAR N. Russia Charges Minister in an Oil Bribery Scandal. New York Times. 2016 Nov;A10.

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