How to format your references using the Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice. 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. Humphries C. Drug development: a complicated path. Nature. 2014;515:S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vaquero LM, Cebrian M. The rich club phenomenon in the classroom. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1174.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wagner CE, Harmon LJ, Seehausen O. Ecological opportunity and sexual selection together predict adaptive radiation. Nature. 2012;487:366–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Saitoh E, Okamoto S, Takahashi KT, Tobe K, Yamamoto K, Kimura T, et al. Observation of orbital waves as elementary excitations in a solid. Nature. 2001;410:180–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Fullman SH. Increasing Alpha with Options. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Wang Y, Li T, editors. Knowledge Engineering and Management: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Shanghai, China, Dec 2011 (ISKE2011). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Thiagalingam S, Faller DV. The Cancer Epigenome. In: Kaufman HL, Wadler S, Antman K, editors. Molecular Targeting in Oncology. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008. p. 97–113.

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 Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. India’s Tiger Population Is Up 30% Since 2010 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/conservation-success-india-s-tiger-population-30-2010/

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. Older Americans: Inability to Repay Student Loans May Affect Financial Security of a Small Percentage of Retirees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Sep. Report No.: GAO-14-866T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tickner A. Production and consumption at the hillfort site of Mont Dardon, France: An archeobotanical analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2009.

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. Hodara S. Using Their Artistic Vision to Pierce Iran’s Veil. New York Times. 2016 Mar 20;WE7.

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	Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice
Abbreviation	Hered. Cancer Clin. Pract.
ISSN (online)	1897-4287
Scope	Genetics(clinical) Oncology