How to format your references using the Breast Cancer Research and Treatment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 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

Cock M (2010) Biopiracy rules should not block biological control. Nature 467:369

A journal article with 2 authors

Aguzzi A, Haass C (2003) Games played by rogue proteins in prion disorders and Alzheimer’s disease. Science 302:814–818

A journal article with 3 authors

Giovannetti V, Lloyd S, Maccone L (2001) Quantum-enhanced positioning and clock synchronization. Nature 412:417–419

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Matsui Y, Seki K, Hibara A, Mizoguchi T (2013) An estimation of molecular dynamic behaviour in a liquid using core-loss spectroscopy. Sci Rep 3:3503

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stratton JA (2015) Electromagnetic Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gaber MM, Cocea M, Wiratunga N, Goker A (2015) Advances in Social Media Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng W, Pang H, Tan K-L (2006) Authenticating Multi-dimensional Query Results in Data Publishing. In: Damiani E, Liu P (eds) Data and Applications Security XX: 20th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, Sophia Antipolis, France, July 31-August 2, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 60–73

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 Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Google Seeks to Integrate Cameras Into Contact Lenses. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/google-seeks-integrate-cameras-contact-lenses/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2003) Corps of Engineers: Effects of Restrictions on Corps’ Hopper Dredges Should Be Comprehensively Analyzed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gu J (2010) Measurement, modeling, and synthesis of time-varying appearance of natural phenomena. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Kelly C (2009) Good Customers, Bad Bill Payers. New York Times B8

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	Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
Abbreviation	Breast Cancer Res. Treat.
ISSN (print)	0167-6806
ISSN (online)	1573-7217
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology