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]

Gomez H. Astrophysics: Survival of the largest. Nature 2014;511:296–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Doherty CJ, Kay SA. Circadian surprise--it’s not all about transcription. Science 2012;338:338–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mouchel CF, Osmont KS, Hardtke CS. BRX mediates feedback between brassinosteroid levels and auxin signalling in root growth. Nature 2006;443:458–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kadaba NS, Kaiser JT, Johnson E, Lee A, Rees DC. The high-affinity E. coli methionine ABC transporter: structure and allosteric regulation. Science 2008;321:250–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.G. Upton G. Categorical Data Analysis by Example. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Dréo J. Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization: Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Evolutionary and Genetic Algorithms, Ant Colonies,… Methods and Case Studies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hall OP, Mooney JG. Hybrid Learning Systems: Meeting the Challenges of Graduate Management Education. In: Tsang P, Cheung SKS, Lee VSK, Huang R, editors. Hybrid Learning: Third International Conference, ICHL 2010, Beijing, China, August 16-18, 2010. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 35–48.

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]

Andrew E. Interbreeding Among Early Hominins. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/interbreeding-among-early-hominins/ (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. Early Childhood Programs: Parent Education and Income Best Predict Participation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jeffries RE. An NMR-compatible bioartificial liver for metabolomic investigation of drug action. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2010.

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]

Greenhouse L. Court Weighs Rights of Passengers When Police Stop Cars. New York Times 2007:A20.

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