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. Cardon LR. Genetics. Delivering new disease genes. Science. 2006;314:1403–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Roth MS, Deheyn DD. Effects of cold stress and heat stress on coral fluorescence in reef-building corals. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1421.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ballester GE, Sing DK, Herbert F. The signature of hot hydrogen in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458b. Nature. 2007;445:511–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hu K, Ji L, Applegate KT, Danuser G, Waterman-Storer CM. Differential transmission of actin motion within focal adhesions. Science. 2007;315:111–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stenning A, Smith A, Rochovská A, Świa̧tek D. Domesticating Neo-Liberalism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Fürnkranz J, Hüllermeier E, editors. Preference Learning. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Melles GRJ. Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty. In: Reinhard T, Larkin DFP, editors. Cornea and External Eye Disease. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 65–71.

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 D. Cracking The Mystery Of The ‘Worldwide Hum’ [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/cracking-the-mystery-of-the-worldwide-hum/

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. Maritime Infrastructure: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Effectiveness of Federal Efforts to Support the Marine Transportation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Nov. Report No.: GAO-13-80.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zhu Z. Financial restatements: Implications for management earnings forecasts [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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. Stewart JB. Following Amazon In the Hunt For a Home. New York Times. 2017 Oct 26;B1.

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