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]

Rieppel O. Evolution. How did the turtle get its shell? Science 2009;325:154–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gunanathan C, Milstein D. Applications of acceptorless dehydrogenation and related transformations in chemical synthesis. Science 2013;341:1229712.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Deller AT, Bailes M, Tingay SJ. Implications of a VLBI distance to the double pulsar J0737-3039A/B. Science 2009;323:1327–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Tumlinson J, Thom C, Werk JK, Prochaska JX, Tripp TM, Weinberg DH, et al. The large, oxygen-rich halos of star-forming galaxies are a major reservoir of galactic metals. Science 2011;334:948–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Datta TK. Seismic Analysis of Structures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Fox J, editor. Sustainable Electricity: Case Studies from Electric Power Companies in North America. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Masera M, Stefanini A, Dondossola G. The Security of Information and Communication Systems and the E+I Paradigm. In: Gheorghe AV, Masera M, Weijnen M, Vries DL, editors. Critical Infrastructures at Risk: Securing the European Electric Power System, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006, p. 85–116.

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]

Andrew E. End Of The Road For Lariam? The Malaria Drug Soldiers Claim Increases Psychosis. 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. DOD Voluntary Education: Determining and Meeting Postsecondary Education Needs in Europe. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kelleher A. Gendered Intent to Turnover Resulting from Workplace Bullying in Nursing and Medical Fields. Doctoral dissertation. Capella 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]

Tierney J. The Perfect Gift? It’s the One They Asked For. New York Times 2016:D1.

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