How to format your references using the Bulletin du Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin du Cancer. 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

[1]

Eisenstein M. Neural circuits: Putting neurons on the map. Nature 2009;461:1149–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ofek G, Diskin R. HIV. Expanding the breadth of an HIV-1 vaccine. Science 2014;346:1290–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kinoshita T, Wenger T, Weiss DS. Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas. Science 2004;305:1125–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Davidson AG, Chan V, O’Dell R, Schieber MH. Rapid changes in throughput from single motor cortex neurons to muscle activity. Science 2007;318:1934–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rizzi TE, Valenciano A, Bowles M, Cowell R, Tyler R, DeNicola DB. Atlas of Canine and Feline Urinalysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Mucherino A, Lavor C, Liberti L, Maculan N, editors. Distance Geometry: Theory, Methods, and Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

McGonagle JJ, Vella CM. Preparing Yourself. In: Vella CM, editor. Proactive Intelligence: The Successful Executive’s Guide to Intelligence, London: Springer; 2012, p. 35–9.

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 Bulletin du Cancer.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Aviation Biofuels Might Just Work For Cutting Greenhouse Emissions. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/aviation-biofuels-might-just-work-for-cutting-greenhouse-emissions/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Job Corps: Comparison of Federal Program With State Youth Training Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Roberson KL. Patient and Family Engagement Initiative: A Quantitative Causal-Comparative Analysis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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

[1]

M’kay IP. REDEFINING POLITICAL TERMS; Need Seen for New Outlook on the Tariff and Isolation. New York Times 1936:social news books14.

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	Bulletin du Cancer
Abbreviation	Bull. Cancer
ISSN (print)	0007-4551
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Hematology Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging