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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Breast 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

Wright J. Epigenetics: reversible tags. Nature. 2013;498(7455):S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Divakaruni AS, Murphy AN. Cell biology. A mitochondrial mystery, solved. Science. 2012;337(6090):41-43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaochar S, Paek AL, Weinert T. Genetics. Replication error amplified. Science. 2010;329(5994):911-913.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kato H, Goto DB, Martienssen RA, Urano T, Furukawa K, Murakami Y. RNA polymerase II is required for RNAi-dependent heterochromatin assembly. Science. 2005;309(5733):467-469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schneider HJ. Wittgenstein’s Later Theory of Meaning. John Wiley & Sons Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Martínez Pérez G, Thampi SM, Ko R, Shu L, eds. Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security: Second International Conference, SNDS 2014, Trivandrum, India, March 13-14, 2014, Proceedings. Vol 420. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Lemert C. Slouching Toward Inequality. In: Machin A, Stehr N, eds. Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2016:101-110.

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 Clinical Breast Cancer.

Blog post

Hale T. Scientists Made A Lego Maze To See How Groups Of Ants Coordinate. IFLScience. November 15, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-made-a-lego-maze-to-see-how-groups-of-ants-coordinate/

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. Improved Management of Computer Resources Needed To Enhance Marine Corps’ Efficiency and Effectiveness. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burke K. Big Five Personality Traits and Astrology: The Relationship between the Moon Variable and the NEO PI-R. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2012.

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

Otis J. Dangers Behind, Uncertainties Ahead, but Together at Last. New York Times. January 16, 2017:A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Clinical Breast Cancer
Abbreviation	Clin. Breast Cancer
ISSN (print)	1526-8209
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology