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. Rogers JA. Journal club. A materials scientist comments on two methods for three-dimensional nanofabrication. Nature. 2010;467:9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mohnen D, Tierney ML. Plant science. Plants get Hyp to O-glycosylation. Science. 2011;332:1393–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hu H, Martina M, Jonas P. Dendritic mechanisms underlying rapid synaptic activation of fast-spiking hippocampal interneurons. Science. 2010;327:52–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ogawa M, Shinohara H, Sakagami Y, Matsubayashi Y. Arabidopsis CLV3 peptide directly binds CLV1 ectodomain. Science. 2008;319:294.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lacalle D. Life in the Financial Markets. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Kühn O, Wöste L, editors. Analysis and Control of Ultrafast Photoinduced Reactions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Šalak A, Selecká M. Effect of Base Materials and of Various Processing Methods on Mechanical and Some Special Properties of Manganese Steels. In: Selecká M, editor. Manganese in Powder Metallurgy Steels. Cambridge: Cambridge International Science Publishing Ltd.; 2012. p. 72–129.

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. Davis J. Reintroduced Beavers In England Help Protect Against Floods And Soil Erosion [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/reintroduced-beavers-in-england-help-protect-against-floods-and-soil-erosion/

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. Space Operations: Listing of NASA Scientific Missions, 1980-2000. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Apr. Report No.: IMTEC-89-46FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fang L. Do media help deter financial misreporting? [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2015.

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. Shear MD, Yee V. ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S. for Now, but Their Long-Term Fate Is Unclear. New York Times. 2017 Jun 16;A17.

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