How to format your references using the Familial Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Familial 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

Watts C (2004) Immunology. The bell tolls for phagosome maturation. Science 304:976–977

A journal article with 2 authors

van’t Veer LJ, Bernards R (2008) Enabling personalized cancer medicine through analysis of gene-expression patterns. Nature 452:564–570

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao J, Liu Q, Wang X (2014) Competitive dynamics on complex networks. Sci Rep 4:5858

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Madon T, Hofman KJ, Kupfer L, Glass RI (2007) Public health. Implementation science. Science 318:1728–1729

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williamson T (2013) Identity and Discrimination. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK

An edited book

Overmann J (2006) Molecular Basis of Symbiosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Davies WR, Patterson T, Redwood SR (2015) Laser Revascularisation in Saphenous Vein Grafts. In: Topaz O (ed) Lasers in Cardiovascular Interventions. Springer, London, pp 69–82

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 Familial Cancer.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) This Massive Cyber Attack Shows Why You Should Change Your Default Passwords. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-massive-cyber-attack-shows-why-you-should-change-your-default-passwords/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2004) Transportation-Disadvantaged Seniors: Efforts to Enhance Senior Mobility Could Benefit from Additional Guidance and Information. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hess JP (2012) Exploring the Challenges of Training and Developing Millennials in the Business Environment. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

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

Brantley B (2016) A Father and a Family, Dissolving Into Darkness. New York Times C1

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	Familial Cancer
Abbreviation	Fam. Cancer
ISSN (print)	1389-9600
ISSN (online)	1573-7292
Scope	Cancer Research Genetics Genetics(clinical) Oncology