How to format your references using the Current Breast Cancer Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Breast Cancer Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Nicholls H. Darwin 200: A flight of fancy. Nature. 2009;457:790–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Velicogna I, Wahr J. Measurements of time-variable gravity show mass loss in Antarctica. Science. 2006;311:1754–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ji Z, Gao H, Yu H. CELL DIVISION CYCLE. Kinetochore attachment sensed by competitive Mps1 and microtubule binding to Ndc80C. Science. 2015;348:1260–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ellwood BB, Benoist SL, El Hassani A, Wheeler C, Crick RE. Impact ejecta layer from the mid-Devonian: possible connection to global mass extinctions. Science. 2003;300:1734–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Rassool GH. Addiction for Nurses. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Counsell S, Núñez M, editors. Software Engineering and Formal Methods: SEFM 2013 Collocated Workshops: BEAT2, WS-FMDS, FM-RAIL-Bok, MoKMaSD, and OpenCert, Madrid, Spain, September 23-24, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Friederich B, Laachachi A, Ferriol M, Ruch D, Cochez M, Toniazzo V. Improvement of Thermal Stability and Fire Behaviour of pmma by a (Metal Oxide Nanoparticles/Ammonium Polyphosphate/ Melamine Polyphosphate) Ternary System. In: Fathi M, Holland A, Ansari F, Weber C, editors. Integrated Systems, Design and Technology 2010: Knowledge Transfer in New Technologies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 47–58.

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 Current Breast Cancer Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. How Does Aging Affect Athletic Performance? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-does-aging-affect-athletic-performance/

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. Charter Schools: Use of Start-Up Grant Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Apr. Report No.: HEHS-98-150R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Rahimi RM. Investigation of Porosity Evolution and Orthotropic Axes on Anisotropic Materials [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

1. Pilon M. New York City Marathon to Have Tighter Security. New York Times. 2013 Oct 3;B12.

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	Current Breast Cancer Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Breast Cancer Rep.
ISSN (print)	1943-4588
ISSN (online)	1943-4596
Scope	Oncology