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. Rastan S. Mary F. Lyon (1925-2014). Nature. 2015;518:36.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yan Y, Pennycook SJ. Atomic structure of the quasicrystal Al72Ni20Co8. Nature. 2000;403:266–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sampat BN, Shadlen KC, Amin TM. Intellectual property. Challenges to India’s pharmaceutical patent laws. Science. 2012;337:414–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kota DJ, DiCarlo B, Hetz RA, Smith P, Cox CS Jr, Olson SD. Differential MSC activation leads to distinct mononuclear leukocyte binding mechanisms. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Müller B, Van de Voorde M. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for Human Health. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

1. Baglieri E, Karmarkar U, editors. Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater? Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Stocklöw C, Kamieth F. Semantic Visualization of Wireless Sensor Networks for Elderly Monitoring. In: Ruyter B de, Wichert R, Keyson DV, Markopoulos P, Streitz N, Divitini M, et al., editors. Ambient Intelligence: First International Joint Conference, AmI 2010, Malaga, Spain, November 10-12, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 41–50.

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. Andrew E. Scientific Origins of Vampirism [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientific-origins-common-halloween-creatures/

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. Air Traffic Control: Observations on FAA’s Air Traffic Control Modernization Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED/AIMD-99-137.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mayberry DS. Total Relaxation Center, LLC [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Bennhold K. In Merkel, a Lofty Symbol for German Women, but an Anomaly. New York Times. 2017 Sep 14;A1.

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