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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Breast Cancer Research. 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 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. Bignami G. Why we need space travel. Nature. 2009;460:325.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kokko H, López-Sepulcre A. From individual dispersal to species ranges: perspectives for a changing world. Science. 2006;313:789–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Maffione M, Morris A, Anderson MW. Recognizing detachment-mode seafloor spreading in the deep geological past. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2336.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Snow DR, Gahegan M, Giles CL, Hirth KG, Milner GR, Mitra P, et al. Information science. Cybertools and archaeology. Science. 2006;311:958–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Maillard P. Competitive Quality Strategies. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Helmstetter J. Quadratic Mappings and Clifford Algebras. Micali A, editor. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nikolos IK, Zografos ES, Brintaki AN. UAV Path Planning Using Evolutionary Algorithms. In: Chahl JS, Jain LC, Mizutani A, Sato-Ilic M, editors. Innovations in Intelligent Machines - 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 77–111.

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.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Photographer Captures Bee Peeing Mid-Flight [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/amateur-captures-bee-peeing-mid-flight/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. How Good Are School Lunches? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Feb. Report No.: CED-78-22.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Goshin LS. Behavior Problems and Competence in Preschoolers Who Spent Their First One to Eighteen Months in a Prison Nursery Program [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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. Poniewozik J. An Old Log Learns Some New Tricks. New York Times. 2017 May 22;C1.

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
ISSN (online)	1465-542X
Scope