How to format your references using the Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia. 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. Gisin N. Physics. New additions to the Schrödinger cat family. Science. 2006;312:63–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bloom P, Weisberg DS. Childhood origins of adult resistance to science. Science. 2007;316:996–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Xu X, Su Y, Fan ZH. Cotinine concentration in serum correlates with tobacco smoke-induced emphysema in mice. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3864.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Basu AR, Petaev MI, Poreda RJ, Jacobsen SB, Becker L. Chondritic meteorite fragments associated with the Permian-Triassic boundary in Antarctica. Science. 2003;302:1388–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sexton D. Trump University Branding 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Helmstetter J. Quadratic Mappings and Clifford Algebras. Micali A, editor. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kim SG. Variations in Outcome of Endodontic Surgery. In: Tsesis I, editor. Complications in Endodontic Surgery: Prevention, Identification and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 39–51.

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 Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Researchers Develop 3D-Printed Bone That The Body Can Turn Into The Real Thing. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Federal R&D Laboratories. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Feb. Report No.: RCED/NSIAD-96-78R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zatolokin A. Stylistic approaches for oboists in the operatic works of J. Hasse [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Accelerators Lend Help to a Business Idea Trying to Catch Fire. New York Times. 2016 Oct 13;B2.

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 Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia
Abbreviation	J. Mammary Gland Biol. Neoplasia
ISSN (print)	1083-3021
ISSN (online)	1573-7039
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology