How to format your references using the The Breast citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Breast. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Shimono M. Non-uniformity of cell density and networks in the monkey brain. Sci Rep 2013;3:2541.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Blondin JM, Mezzacappa A. Pulsar spins from an instability in the accretion shock of supernovae. Nature 2007;445:58–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dietl GP, Herbert GS, Vermeij GJ. Reduced competition and altered feeding behavior among marine snails after a mass extinction. Science 2004;306:2229–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang D, Tian H, Yang Y, Xie D, Ren T-L, Zhang Y. Scalable and direct growth of graphene micro ribbons on dielectric substrates. Sci Rep 2013;3:1348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

van Helvoort H. SDH/SONET Explained in Functional Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Gaeta G, editor. Modelli Matematici in Biologia. Milano: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Stober T, Hansmann U. Tooling. In: Hansmann U, editor. Agile Software Development: Best Practices for Large Software Development Projects, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 61–73.

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 The Breast.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. This Could Be The Last Chance To Save The World’s Smallest Porpoise From Extinction. 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. Airline Competition: Pending Legislation Helps to Address Serious Competitive Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gaines M. Perceptions of knowledge sharing within hybrid learning environments: As iron sharpens iron among graduate students. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 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]

Brantley B. Bewildered Rage Over Lives Cut Short. New York Times 2017:C2.

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	The Breast
Abbreviation	Breast
ISSN (print)	0960-9776
Scope	General Medicine Surgery