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

Arthur W. The emerging conceptual framework of evolutionary developmental biology. Nature. 2002 Feb;415(6873):757–64.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milinski M, Rockenbach B. Economics. Spying on others evolves. Science. 2007 Jul;317(5837):464–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ikegami H, Tsutsumi Y, Kono K. Chiral symmetry breaking in superfluid 3He-A. Science. 2013 Jul;341(6141):59–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhou WP, Li Q, Xiong YQ, Zhang QM, Wang DH, Cao QQ, et al. Electric field manipulation of magnetic and transport properties in SrRuO3/Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 heterostructure. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov;4:6991.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langlois P. Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

López-Larrea C, editor. Sensing in Nature. New York, NY: Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Lazzini S, Anselmi L, Schiavo LL, Falanga AM. The Role of Information Systems to Support Performance Management in Public Administration: The Case of the Italian Regulatory Authority for the Energy Sector. In: Baglieri D, Metallo C, Rossignoli C, Pezzillo Iacono M, editors. Information Systems, Management, Organization and Control: Smart Practices and Effects. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014; pp 47–64.

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

Andrew E. First Flight Test Today For NASA’s Newest Partner [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-flight-test-today-nasas-newest-partner-edited-ma/

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. Automated Systems: Legislative Branch’s Efforts in Sharing Payroll/Personnel Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Poudyal Kharel A. Pyrolysis Studies of Copper and Copper Phosphate Mixtures on a Tungsten Surface. 2015

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

Hubbard B. Rebels’ Plight Is Clear in Yemeni Capital. New York Times. 2016 Nov;A6.

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