How to format your references using the Current Breast Cancer Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Breast Cancer Reports. 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. Isner JM. Myocardial gene therapy. Nature. 2002;415:234–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hooley CA, Mackenzie AP. Physics. Heavy fermions in the original Fermi liquid. Science. 2007;317:1332–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. von Melchner L, Pallas SL, Sur M. Visual behaviour mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway. Nature. 2000;404:871–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tao K, Wang J, Li Y, Xia D, Shan H, Xu H, et al. Short peptide-directed synthesis of one-dimensional platinum nanostructures with controllable morphologies. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Valizadeh P. Field Effect Transistors, A Comprehensive Overview. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Dodis Y, Nielsen JB, editors. Theory of Cryptography: 12th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2015, Warsaw, Poland, March 23-25, 2015, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Liu X, Li J, Zhou D, An Y, Xia X. Preserving the d-Reachability When Anonymizing Social Networks. In: Cui B, Zhang N, Xu J, Lian X, Liu D, editors. Web-Age Information Management: 17th International Conference, WAIM 2016, Nanchang, China, June 3-5, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 40–51.

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 Current Breast Cancer Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. This 800-Year-Old Man Was Probably Killed By A Boomerang. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. H.R. 4326: Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1981. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 Jan. Report No.: 117344.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Smith KL. Initial construct validation of the color figure mazes test [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

1. Saslow L. Another Summer, Same Dark Stage. New York Times. 2007 Aug 19;LI2.

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	Current Breast Cancer Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Breast Cancer Rep.
ISSN (print)	1943-4588
ISSN (online)	1943-4596
Scope	Oncology