How to format your references using the Acta Haematologica Polonica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Haematologica Polonica. 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

[1]

Robins RW. Psychology. The nature of personality: genes, culture, and national character. Science 2005;310:62–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Waldschmidt TJ, Noelle RJ. Immunology. Long live the mature B cell--a baffling mystery resolved. Science 2001;293:2012–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Beal EJ, House CH, Orphan VJ. Manganese- and iron-dependent marine methane oxidation. Science 2009;325:184–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bikondoa O, Carbone D, Chamard V, Metzger TH. Ageing dynamics of ion bombardment induced self-organization processes. Sci Rep 2013;3:1850.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Liu W, Pecht M. IC Component Sockets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Croitoru M, Rudolph S, Wilson N, Howse J, Corby O, editors. Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Second International Workshop, GKR 2011, Barcelona, Spain, July 16, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. vol. 7205. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hughes D, Evans M, Morrow G, Keith S. Creativities, Production Technologies and Song Authorship. In: Evans M, Morrow G, Keith S, editors. The New Music Industries: Disruption and Discovery, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 63–80.

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 Polonica.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Oceans Endure on Super-Earths. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/oceans-last-super-earths/ (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 Student Loans: Audits and Reviews of the Federal Family Education Loan and Federal Direct Loan Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nguyen C. A psychoeducational support group for Vietnamese American family caregivers of stroke survivors: Grant writing thesis proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Hodgman J. I Am Sorry for This Mess. New York Times 2017:SR8.

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 Polonica
Abbreviation	Acta Haematol. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0001-5814
Scope	Hematology Oncology