How to format your references using the BBA - Reviews on Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BBA - Reviews on Cancer. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

U.H. Wiechert, Geology. Earth’s early atmosphere, Science 298 (2002) 2341–2342.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.R. Bandyopadhyay, J.C. Hansen, Breakup and then makeup: a predictive model of how cilia self-regulate hardness for posture control, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1956.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Nygård, D.H. Cobden, P.E. Lindelof, Kondo physics in carbon nanotubes, Nature 408 (2000) 342–346.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.M. Nishiguchi, M.A. Sandberg, A.C. Kooijman, K.A. Martemyanov, J.W.R. Pott, S.A. Hagstrom, V.Y. Arshavsky, E.L. Berson, T.P. Dryja, Defects in RGS9 or its anchor protein R9AP in patients with slow photoreceptor deactivation, Nature 427 (2004) 75–78.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Hezaveh, SAS® 9 Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

A. Peña-Ayala, ed., Intelligent and Adaptive Educational-Learning Systems: Achievements and Trends, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Naunheimer, B. Bertsche, J. Ryborz, W. Novak, Power Conversion: Selecting the Ratios, in: B. Bertsche, J. Ryborz, W. Novak (Eds.), Automotive Transmissions: Fundamentals, Selection, Design and Application, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 100–114.

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 BBA - Reviews on Cancer.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Pregnancy: Cooperative Paradise Or Conflict-Driven Battle Between Mother And Child?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/pregnancy-cooperative-paradise-or-conflict-driven-battle-between-mother-and-0/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Trademark ADP System: Patent Office Should Analyze Alternatives Before Contract Award, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.P. Uzoff, Virtual school teacher’s science efficacy beliefs: The effects of community of practice on science-teaching efficacy beliefs, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2014.

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]

K. Link, Subversive Pleasure, New York Times (2015) BR29.

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	BBA - Reviews on Cancer
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Rev. Cancer
ISSN (print)	0304-419X
Scope	Cancer Research Genetics Oncology