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]

Foster PL. Comment on “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.” Science 2011;332:1149; author reply 1149.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zhang Y, Kalderon D. Hedgehog acts as a somatic stem cell factor in the Drosophila ovary. Nature 2001;410:599–604.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Watanabe T, Náñez JE, Sasaki Y. Perceptual learning without perception. Nature 2001;413:844–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lanzetti L, Rybin V, Malabarba MG, Christoforidis S, Scita G, Zerial M, et al. The Eps8 protein coordinates EGF receptor signalling through Rac and trafficking through Rab5. Nature 2000;408:374–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Snell RS, Lemp MA. Clinical Anatomy of the Eye. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd,.; 1997.

An edited book

[1]

Remedios CG dos, Chhabra D, editors. Actin-Binding Proteins and Disease. vol. 8. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Mathieu L, Ballu A. A Model for a Coherent and Complete Tolerancing Process. In: Davidson JK, editor. Models for Computer Aided Tolerancing in Design and Manufacturing: Selected Conference Papers from the 9th CIRP International Seminar on Computer-Aided Tolerancing, held at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, 10-12 April, 2005, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 35–44.

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]

Fang J. Jumping Snails Prevail In Warm, Acidic Waters. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/jumping-snails-prevail-warm-acidic-waters/ (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. Emergency Communications: Vulnerabilities Remain and Limited Collaboration and Monitoring Hamper Federal Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hatton JD. The Changing Dynamics of Health Care: Physician Perceptions of Technology in Medical Practices. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2012.

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. Justices, 5-4, Accept No Excuses From Inmate for Mistaken Late Filing of an Appeal. New York Times 2007:A18.

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

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