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

Brody H (2015) Beauty. Nature 526:S1

A journal article with 2 authors

Byers J, Dunn S (2012) Bateman in nature: predation on offspring reduces the potential for sexual selection. Science 338:802–804

A journal article with 3 authors

Ehrlich PR, Kareiva PM, Daily GC (2012) Securing natural capital and expanding equity to rescale civilization. Nature 486:68–73

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yuan M, Konstantopoulos N, Lee J, et al (2001) Reversal of obesity- and diet-induced insulin resistance with salicylates or targeted disruption of Ikkbeta. Science 293:1673–1677

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garber R (2014) BIM Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kothe E, Varma A (2012) Bio-Geo Interactions in Metal-Contaminated Soils. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rountev A, Sharp M, Xu G (2008) IDE Dataflow Analysis in the Presence of Large Object-Oriented Libraries. In: Hendren L (ed) Compiler Construction: 17th International Conference, CC 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–68

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

Andrews R (2017) Scientists Build Working Heart Tissue Out Of Spinach Leaves. In: IFLScience. 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 (2015) Information Security: Department of Education and Other Federal Agencies Need to Better Implement Controls. 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

Burgner J (2010) Bullying prevention: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kitsantonis N (2017) Debt Relief, With Pain, Is on the Way For Greece. New York Times B3

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