How to format your references using the Acta Haematologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Haematologica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Halyo V. Martin L. Perl (1927-2014). Nature. 2014 Dec;516(7531):330.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frank SA, Nowak MA. Cell biology: Developmental predisposition to cancer. Nature. 2003 Apr;422(6931):494.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hristov TS, Miller SD, Friehe CA. Dynamical coupling of wind and ocean waves through wave-induced air flow. Nature. 2003 Mar;422(6927):55–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lebreton A, Lakisic G, Job V, Fritsch L, Tham TN, Camejo A, et al. A bacterial protein targets the BAHD1 chromatin complex to stimulate type III interferon response. Science. 2011 Mar;331(6022):1319–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Noyer J-M. Transformation of Collective Intelligences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Meersman R, Tari Z, Herrero P, editors. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET, OnToContent, ORM, PerSys, OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium, RDDS, SWWS, and SeBGIS 2006, Montpellier, France, October 29 - November 3, 2006. Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Phan TN, Küng J, Dang TK. An Efficient Similarity Search in Large Data Collections with MapReduce. In: Dang TK, Wagner R, Neuhold E, Takizawa M, Küng J, Thoai N, editors. Future Data and Security Engineering: First International Conference, FDSE 2014, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 19-21, 2014, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014; pp 44–57.

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 Acta Haematologica.

Blog post

Fang J. Greenhouse Gas Levels Reached Record High Last Year [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/greenhouse-gas-levels-reached-record-high-last-year/

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. Proprietary Schools: Millions Spent to Train Students for Oversupplied Occupations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee E. Assessing the Well-Being Koreans and Korean Americans: Psychometric Validation Study for a Multidimensional Assessment of Well-Being. 2017

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

Greenhouse L. Federal Judges Take Steps To Improve Accountability. New York Times. 2006 Sep;A20.

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	Acta Haematologica
Abbreviation	Acta Haematol.
ISSN (print)	0001-5792
ISSN (online)	1421-9662
Scope	General Medicine Hematology