How to format your references using the Journal of Breast Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Breast Cancer (JBC). 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

Smaglik P. Another British invasion? Nature 2002;420:3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thursby JG, Thursby MC. Intellectual property. University licensing and the Bayh-Dole Act. Science 2003;301:1052.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirn TJ, Jude BA, Taylor RK. A colonization factor links Vibrio cholerae environmental survival and human infection. Nature 2005;438:863–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tanaka Y, Oshima Y, Yamamura T, Sugiyama M, Mitsuda N, Ohtsubo N, et al. Multi-petal cyclamen flowers produced by AGAMOUS chimeric repressor expression. Sci Rep 2013;3:2641.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf EL. Nanophysics of Solar and Renewable Energy. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Feldmeyer D, Lübke JHR, editors. New Aspects of Axonal Structure and Function. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Aldon L, Ionica CM, Lippens PE, Larcher D, Tarascon J-M, Olivier-Fourcade J, et al. In situ 119Sn Mössbauer spectroscopy used to study lithium insertion in c-Mg2Sn. In: Lippens P-E, Jumas J-C, Génin J-MR, editors. ICAME 2005: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2005) held in Montpellier, France, 4–9 September 2005 Volume II (Part III–V/V). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. pp. 729–32.

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 Journal of Breast Cancer.

Blog post

Andrew D. The Big Picture Of The Universe Reveals The Family Tree Of Galaxies. IFLScience. IFLScience2016 Oct 2. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-big-picture-of-the-universe-reveals-the-family-tree-of-galaxies/.

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. Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office1999 Jan 1.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Younis KM. The impact of moral values on ethical practices in environmental management. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix2013.

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

Poniewozik J. Close Encounter With a Moviemaking Genius. New York Times. 2017 Oct. 5C10.

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	Journal of Breast Cancer
ISSN (print)	1738-6756
ISSN (online)	2092-9900
Scope