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. Bohannon J. The Gonzo Scientist. Play it again, robot. Science. 2008;319:1613.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Emerson BC, Kolm N. Species diversity can drive speciation. Nature. 2005;434:1015–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cui M, Emrick T, Russell TP. Stabilizing liquid drops in nonequilibrium shapes by the interfacial jamming of nanoparticles. Science. 2013;342:460–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gunnarsson TG, Gill JA, Sigurbjörnsson T, Sutherland WJ. Pair bonds: arrival synchrony in migratory birds. Nature. 2004;431:646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Burgess M. Analytical Network and System Administration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Gupta A, Malik S, editors. Computer Aided Verification: 20th International Conference, CAV 2008 Princeton, NJ, USA, July 7-14, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kang R, Tang D. What Is the Pathobiology of Inflammation to Cell Death? Apoptosis, Necrosis, Necroptosis, Autophagic Cell Death, Pyroptosis, and NETosis. In: Maiuri MC, De Stefano D, editors. Autophagy Networks in Inflammation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 81–106.

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. Where Have The Stars Gone? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/missing-stars-confound-globular-cluster-formation-theories/

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. Student Loans: Direct Loan Default Rates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Oct. Report No.: GAO-01-68.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Do NH. An examination of support systems to enable Vietnamese immigrants to acquire English skills [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2012.

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. Branch J. Thinking About the Future in a Place Where Lives Ended. New York Times. 2017 Oct 9;A15.

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

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