How to format your references using the Familial Cancer citation style

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

Epstein SS (2009) Microbial awakenings. Nature 457:1083

A journal article with 2 authors

Glazman LI, Ashoori RC (2004) Physics. Coupling qubits by waves on the electron sea. Science 304:524–525

A journal article with 3 authors

Lawrence KT, Liu Z, Herbert TD (2006) Evolution of the eastern tropical Pacific through Plio-Pleistocene glaciation. Science 312:79–83

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang Q, Chen J, Kuwajima K, et al (2013) Nucleotide-induced conformational changes of tetradecameric GroEL mapped by H/D exchange monitored by FT-ICR mass spectrometry. Sci Rep 3:1247

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reschetilowski W (2002) Technisch-Chemisches Praktikum. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

G MMG, R MMM, Babak AM (2011) Master Techniques in Blepharoplasty and Periorbital Rejuvenation. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Fallahpour M, Megías D (2009) Reversible Data Hiding Based On H.264/AVC Intra Prediction. In: Kim H-J, Katzenbeisser S, Ho ATS (eds) Digital Watermarking: 7th International Workshop, IWDW 2008, Busan, Korea, November 10-12, 2008. Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 52–60

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 Familial Cancer.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Here’s What Earth Would Look Like If Fossil Fuel Energy, Nuclear And Renewable Power Sources Were All Turned Off One By One. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/where-does-each-country-get-its-power/. 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 (1974) Problems And Progress Of The U.S. Army Materiel Command’s Automated Data Processing Service Center Concept. 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

Acosta J (2013) Building bridges: A specialized training program for professionals in school settings to address bullying in LGBTQ youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Stewart JB (2017) How United Pulled Out Of Its Public Nose Dive. New York Times B1

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	Familial Cancer
Abbreviation	Fam. Cancer
ISSN (print)	1389-9600
ISSN (online)	1573-7292
Scope	Cancer Research Genetics Genetics(clinical) Oncology