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. Randall L. Extra dimensions and warped geometries. Science. 2002;296:1422–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kleckner D, Bouwmeester D. Sub-kelvin optical cooling of a micromechanical resonator. Nature. 2006;444:75–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Spranger S, Bao R, Gajewski TF. Melanoma-intrinsic β-catenin signalling prevents anti-tumour immunity. Nature. 2015;523:231–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lata S, Schoehn G, Jain A, Pires R, Piehler J, Gottlinger HG, et al. Helical structures of ESCRT-III are disassembled by VPS4. Science. 2008;321:1354–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sandou G. Metaheuristic Optimization for the Design of Automatic Control Laws. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Yamada S. OSS Reliability Measurement and Assessment. 1st ed. 2016. Tamura Y, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Marwala T, Lagazio M. Support Vector Machines for Modeling Interstate Conflict. In: Lagazio M, editor. Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence. London: Springer; 2011. p. 89–105.

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. Fang J. This Red Flower Curves to Conform to a Bird’s Bill [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/red-flower-curves-conform-bird-s-bill/

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. Post-9/11 GI Bill: Additional Actions Needed to Help Reduce Overpayments and Increase Collections. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Oct. Report No.: GAO-16-42.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Castaneda Martinez NE. Implementation of the Parent Partner Project to improve reunification rates in Sonoma County: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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. Wasik JF. Reverse Mortgages Are Quietly Making a Comeback. New York Times. 2016 Jul 22;B5.

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