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]

Baker M. Microscopy: Bright light, better labels. Nature 2011;478:137–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tremaroli V, Bäckhed F. Functional interactions between the gut microbiota and host metabolism. Nature 2012;489:242–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cuello LG, Cortes DM, Perozo E. Molecular architecture of the KvAP voltage-dependent K+ channel in a lipid bilayer. Science 2004;306:491–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ziu E, Hadden C, Li Y, Lowery CL 3rd, Singh P, Ucer SS, et al. Effect of serotonin on platelet function in cocaine exposed blood. Sci Rep 2014;4:5945.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Niemi V, Nyberg K. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Security. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Dix J, Hegner SJ, editors. Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: 4th International Symposium, FoIKS 2006, Budapest, Hungary, Februrary 14-17, 2006. Proceedings. vol. 3861. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Solé M, Carmona J. An SMT-Based Discovery Algorithm for C-Nets. In: Haddad S, Pomello L, editors. Application and Theory of Petri Nets: 33rd International Conference, PETRI NETS 2012, Hamburg, Germany, June 25-29, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 51–71.

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]

Luntz S. Why Is Saturn So Bizarrely Hot? IFLScience 2015.

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 Research: Information on the Advanced Technology Program’s 1997 Award Selection. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lin H-C. Depression screening in ambulatory care. Doctoral dissertation. 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]

Saslow L. Honoring Neighbors Killed in Attacks. New York Times 2007:14LI7.

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