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

Dolgin E. Stem cells: Transplants on trial. Nature. 2011 Dec;480(7377):S46-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shank SS, Margoliash D. Sleep and sensorimotor integration during early vocal learning in a songbird. Nature. 2009 Mar;458(7234):73–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sreekanth KV, De Luca A, Strangi G. Experimental demonstration of surface and bulk plasmon polaritons in hypergratings. Sci Rep. 2013 Nov;3:3291.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Okada Y, Scott G, Ray MK, Mishina Y, Zhang Y. Histone demethylase JHDM2A is critical for Tnp1 and Prm1 transcription and spermatogenesis. Nature. 2007 Nov;450(7166):119–23.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach J. Excel® VBA Programming For Dummies®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Nijholt A, Romão T, Reidsma D, editors. Advances in Computer Entertainment: 9th International Conference, ACE 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 3-5, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Curry GL, Feldman RM. Multiple-Stage Single-Product Factory Models. In: Feldman RM, editor. Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Analysis. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009; pp 125–57.

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. Early East Asians Mixed With Neanderthals More Than Once [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Feb [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/early-east-asians-mixed-neanderthals-more-once/

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. High Risk Series: Guaranteed Student Loans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stangl BL. The mediation of cognitive task performance in post-menopausal women: An examination of the effects of DHEA upon cognition. 2010

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

Bilefsky D. Court Decides Not to Certify Ouster Vote In Romania. New York Times. 2012 Aug;A8.

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