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

Bourzac K. Spiders: Web of intrigue. Nature. 2015 Mar;519(7544):S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Choi YJ, Lee SY. Microbial production of short-chain alkanes. Nature. 2013 Oct;502(7472):571–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Milo A, Bess EN, Sigman MS. Interrogating selectivity in catalysis using molecular vibrations. Nature. 2014 Mar;507(7491):210–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ueda K, Ishikawa N, Tatsuguchi A, Saichi N, Fujii R, Nakagawa H. Antibody-coupled monolithic silica microtips for highthroughput molecular profiling of circulating exosomes. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug;4:6232.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva FSC, Agustí-Cullell J. Knowledge Coordination. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Borrione D, editor. Advances in Design Methods from Modeling Languages for Embedded Systems and SoC’s: Selected Contributions on Specification, Design, and Verification from FDL 2009. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Consoli S, Gangemi A, Nuzzolese AG, Peroni S, Reforgiato Recupero D, Spampinato D. Setting the Course of Emergency Vehicle Routing Using Geolinked Open Data for the Municipality of Catania. In: Presutti V, Blomqvist E, Troncy R, Sack H, Papadakis I, Tordai A, editors. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014; pp 42–53.

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

Davis J. Paris Climate Deal Nears Finishing Line As UK Announces It Will Ratify Agreement [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/paris-climate-deal-nears-finishing-line-as-uk-announces-it-will-ratify-agreement/

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. School Dropouts: Education Could Play a Stronger Role in Identifying and Disseminating Promising Prevention Strategies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pan A. The Mental Health and Well-Being of College Students in Cambodia. 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

Wilson M. A Cry for Help as a Witness Recounts a Man’s Fall Onto the Subway Tracks. New York Times. 2017 May;A19.

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