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]

Corma A. Materials chemistry: Catalysts made thinner. Nature 2009;461:182–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hofmann HA, Stevenson PA. Flight restores fight in crickets. Nature 2000;403:613.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gillespie AR, Montgomery DR, Mushkin A. Planetary science: are there active glaciers on Mars? Nature 2005;438:E9-10; discussion E10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Reich D, Green RE, Kircher M, Krause J, Patterson N, Durand EY, et al. Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia. Nature 2010;468:1053–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pease G. Optimize Your Greatest Asset-Your People. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Bonavida B, editor. Resistance to Immunotherapeutic Antibodies in Cancer: Strategies to Overcome Resistance. vol. 2. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cvetkovic D, Abdullah H, Chaparro-Vargas R. A Review of Methods to Characterize and Classify Sleep, Depression and Schizophrenia Disorders. In: Adibi S, editor. Mobile Health: A Technology Road Map, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 77–99.

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]

Andrew E. Are We Sleep-Deprived Or Just Darkness-Deprived? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-we-sleep-deprived-or-just-darkness-deprived/ (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. The Cost Of Aerospace Ground Equipment Could Be Reduced. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Flores MY. Delinquency prevention program for Latino youth: A grant proposal project. 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]

Greenhouse L. Detainees at Guantánamo Fight Further Appeal Delay. New York Times 2008:A17.

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