How to format your references using the Clinical Breast Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Breast 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

Luntz AC. Chemistry. Toward vibrational mode control in catalysis. Science. 2003;302(5642):70-71.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coates JC, de Bono M. Antagonistic pathways in neurons exposed to body fluid regulate social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 2002;419(6910):925-929.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furman JL, Murray F, Stern S. More for the research dollar. Nature. 2010;468(7325):757-758.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schramek D, Leibbrandt A, Sigl V, et al. Osteoclast differentiation factor RANKL controls development of progestin-driven mammary cancer. Nature. 2010;468(7320):98-102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yavaş M. Applied English Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Rothengatter W, Hayashi Y, Schade W, eds. Transport Moving to Climate Intelligence: New Chances for Controlling Climate Impacts of Transport after the Economic Crisis. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Deak T, Okrainets A, Doremus-Fitzwater TL. Mechanisms of Stress-Dependent Neuroinflammation and Their Implications for Understanding Consequences of Alcohol Exposure. In: Cui C, Grandison L, Noronha A, eds. Neural-Immune Interactions in Brain Function and Alcohol Related Disorders. Springer US; 2013:133-166.

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 Clinical Breast Cancer.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Make Neurons From Human Skin Cells Using Only Chemicals. IFLScience. August 8, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-make-neurons-human-skin-cells-using-only-chemicals/

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. Charter Schools: New Charter Schools Across the Country and in the District of Columbia Face Similar Start-Up Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Luna D. Preventing Obesity among Foster Youth through Nutrition and Outdoor Activities: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Solomon BC. In Grim Camps, Desperate Scene for Rohingya. New York Times. September 29, 2017:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Clinical Breast Cancer
Abbreviation	Clin. Breast Cancer
ISSN (print)	1526-8209
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology