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

Benniston A. Chemistry. Corralling positively charged molecular radicals. Science. 2013;339(6118):404-405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krishnamurthy H, Gouaux E. X-ray structures of LeuT in substrate-free outward-open and apo inward-open states. Nature. 2012;481(7382):469-474.

A journal article with 3 authors

Soroceanu L, Akhavan A, Cobbs CS. Platelet-derived growth factor-alpha receptor activation is required for human cytomegalovirus infection. Nature. 2008;455(7211):391-395.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Riller U, Poelchau MH, Rae ASP, et al. Author Correction: Rock fluidization during peak-ring formation of large impact structures. Nature. Published online November 13, 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kenett RS, Zacks S, Amberti D. Modern Industrial Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Hrycay EG, Bandiera SM, eds. Monooxygenase, Peroxidase and Peroxygenase Properties and Mechanisms of Cytochrome P450. Vol 851. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Tejchman J, Kozicki J. Theoretical Models. In: Kozicki J, ed. Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Steel-Fibrous Concrete. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer; 2010:171-179.

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. Childhood Health Improves Following Closure of Chinese Coal-Burning Power Plant. IFLScience. Published September 2, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/childhood-health-improves-following-closure-chinese-coal-burning-power-plant/

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. Agriculture ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hilker B. Electric-Field Effects and Interactions of Dye-Polymer Systems. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 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

Vecsey G. Strides, Often Painful, but Always, Always Forward. New York Times. April 26, 2010:D5.

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