How to format your references using the Bulletin du Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin du 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	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]

Butt Y. Beyond the myth of the supernova-remnant origin of cosmic rays. Nature 2009;460:701–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Paerl HW, Otten TG. Environmental science. Blooms bite the hand that feeds them. Science 2013;342:433–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gubbins D, Jones AL, Finlay CC. Fall in Earth’s magnetic field is erratic. Science 2006;312:900–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Motoyama EM, Yu G, Vishik IM, Vajk OP, Mang PK, Greven M. Spin correlations in the electron-doped high-transition-temperature superconductor Nd2-xCexCuO4+/-delta. Nature 2007;445:186–9.

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]

Purchase D, editor. Fungal Applications in Sustainable Environmental Biotechnology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lakshmikantham V, Leela S, Martynyuk AA. Stability of Perturbed Motion. In: Leela S, Martynyuk AA, editors. Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 201–52.

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 Bulletin du Cancer.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. 17 Jokes That Only Smart People Will Really Appreciate. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/17-jokes-that-only-smart-people-will-really-appreciate/ (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. Follow-up National Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nespoli G. Impact of Supervisor Support on Employee Job Satisfaction Among Fundraising Staff Within Higher Education. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine 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]

Mulcahy S. A College That Paid Bills by Selling Its Art. New York Times 2016: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	Bulletin du Cancer
Abbreviation	Bull. Cancer
ISSN (print)	0007-4551
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Hematology Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging