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]

Goldston D. Financial planning. Nature 2008;454:680.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cochella L, Green R. An active role for tRNA in decoding beyond codon:anticodon pairing. Science 2005;308:1178–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Videler JJ, Stamhuis EJ, Povel GDE. Leading-edge vortex lifts swifts. Science 2004;306:1960–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chauhan P, Jain R, Dey B, Tyagi AK. Adjunctive immunotherapy with α-crystallin based DNA vaccination reduces Tuberculosis chemotherapy period in chronically infected mice. Sci Rep 2013;3:1821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lee YS. Self-Assembly and Nanotechnology Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Vlad S, Ciupa RV, Nicu AI, editors. International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology: 23–26 September, 2009, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. vol. 26. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Edward SG, Sabharwal N. The MongoDB Data Model. In: Sabharwal N, editor. Practical MongoDB: Architecting, Developing, and Administering MongoDB, Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2015, p. 29–34.

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]

O`Callaghan J. An Astronaut Just Ran The London Marathon In Space. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/british-astronaut-tim-peake-going-run-london-marathon-space-weekend/ (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. NSF’s Academic Facilities Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Castro Deller E. Recognizing signs of dementia: A curriculum for child welfare workers. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Murphy MJO. Friday File. New York Times 2014:C34.

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