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. Hovnanian JS. Let Armenia show why it’s the place for Sesame. Nature. 2000;405:508.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Capraro V, Marcelletti A. Do good actions inspire good actions in others? Sci Rep. 2014;4:7470.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zenisek D, Steyer JA, Almers W. Transport, capture and exocytosis of single synaptic vesicles at active zones. Nature. 2000;406:849–54.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Halic M, Gartmann M, Schlenker O, Mielke T, Pool MR, Sinning I, et al. Signal recognition particle receptor exposes the ribosomal translocon binding site. Science. 2006;312:745–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ibe OC. Fundamentals of Stochastic Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Rovenský J, Payer J, editors. Dictionary of Rheumatology. Vienna: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Balaram V, Kamala CT, Mathur R, Rao AS, Satyanarayanan M. PGE in Road Dust/Top Soil from Major Indian Cities: Implications on Human Health and Environment. In: Ramkumar M, editor. On a Sustainable Future of the Earth’s Natural Resources. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 85–107.

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. Taub B. Do Animals Use Drugs In The Wild? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/do-animals-use-drugs-wild/

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. Mass Transit: FTA Could Relieve New Starts Program Funding Constraints. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Aug. Report No.: GAO-01-987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fino M. Fruit and vegetable intake and exercise practices of college students of color [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Kenigsberg B. Review: ‘Finding Babel’ Retraces a Celebrated Grandfather’s Footsteps. New York Times. 2016 Oct 27;C7.

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