How to format your references using the The Breast citation style

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

Cyranoski D. Japanese team makes stem cells. Nature 2003;423:577.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Beninger RJ, Quinsey VL. Animal behaviour: chimpanzee choice and prosociality. Nature 2006;440:E6; discussion E6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Reiserer A, Ritter S, Rempe G. Nondestructive detection of an optical photon. Science 2013;342:1349–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Marshall NM, Garner DK, Wilson TD, Gao Y-G, Robinson H, Nilges MJ, et al. Rationally tuning the reduction potential of a single cupredoxin beyond the natural range. Nature 2009;462:113–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nash J. Diabetes and Wellbeing. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Gogolin AO. Lectures on Complex Integration. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dagogo-Jack S. Physiological and Hormonal Factors that Influence Leptin Production. In: Sam D-JM, editor. Leptin: Regulation and Clinical Applications, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 45–65.

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 The Breast.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. One Day You May Be Able To Taste In Virtual Reality. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/one-day-you-may-be-able-to-taste-in-virtual-reality/ (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. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Comments on Recent GAO Report on its Enterprise Architecture Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zitko JA. Effects of Random Cross-Sectioned Distributions, Fiber Misalignment and Interphases in Three-Dimensional Composite Models on Transverse Shear Modulus. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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]

Pilon M. Amid Storm Recovery, Marathon Expo Opens Doors to Runners. New York Times 2012:B10.

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	The Breast
Abbreviation	Breast
ISSN (print)	0960-9776
Scope	General Medicine Surgery