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

Singer T. Nutrition: The vitamin D complex. Nature. 2012;489(7417):S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Quasdorf KW, Overman LE. Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of quaternary carbon stereocentres. Nature. 2014;516(7530):181-191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hellweger FL, van Sebille E, Fredrick ND. Biogeographic patterns in ocean microbes emerge in a neutral agent-based model. Science. 2014;345(6202):1346-1349.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Okita K, Nakagawa M, Hyenjong H, Ichisaka T, Yamanaka S. Generation of mouse induced pluripotent stem cells without viral vectors. Science. 2008;322(5903):949-953.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ratzliff A, Unutzer J, Katon W, Stephens KA. Integrated Care. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Martínez-Trinidad JF, Carrasco Ochoa JA, Kittler J, eds. Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 11th Iberoamerican Congress in Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2006 Cancun, Mexico, November 14-17, 2006 Proceedings. Vol 4225. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Reichenbächer M, Popp J. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR). In: Popp J, ed. Challenges in Molecular Structure Determination. Springer; 2012:215-312.

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

Evans K. 4 Things You Can Literally Learn While You Sleep. IFLScience. November 28, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/4-things-you-can-literally-learn-while-you-sleep/

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. Efforts To Improve School Lunch Programs--Are They Paying Off? U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edwards CD. Migration: Lighting to Evoke Human Responses. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Gustines GG. You Too Can Learn to Draw, Online. New York Times. March 20, 2015:F3.

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