How to format your references using the Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia. 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. Walsh C. correction: Enabling the chemistry of life. Nature. 2001;411:824.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Perrimon N, Bernfield M. Specificities of heparan sulphate proteoglycans in developmental processes. Nature. 2000;404:725–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Saether B-E, Engen S, Matthysen E. Demographic characteristics and population dynamical patterns of solitary birds. Science. 2002;295:2070–3.

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. McGee G. Bioethics for beginners. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

1. Hagan JJ, editor. Molecular and Functional Models in Neuropsychiatry. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zhao M, Song L, Fan X. The Application of the Boundary Theory of Phase Diagrams to the Quaternary and Higher Number Component Phase Diagrams. In: Song L, Fan X, editors. The Boundary Theory of Phase Diagrams and Its Application: Rules for Phase Diagram Construction with Phase Regions and Their Boundaries. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 92–106.

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 Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. 12,000-Year-Old Icebergs Could Soon Be Available At A Bar Near You [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/12000-year-old-icebergs-could-be-available-bar-near-you/. 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. Natural Gas Pipeline Safety: Risk-Based Standards Should Allow Operators to Better Tailor Reassessments to Pipeline Threats. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Sep. Report No.: GAO-06-945.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kratovac S. Developmental alterations in inhibitory neurotransmission in the Fragile X Syndrome mouse basolateral amygdala [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Dorman JL. Crossing the River From ‘Midnight’ to Freedom. New York Times. 2017 Feb 24;TR4.

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	Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia
Abbreviation	J. Mammary Gland Biol. Neoplasia
ISSN (print)	1083-3021
ISSN (online)	1573-7039
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology