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]

Ittekkot V. Geochemistry. A new story from the Ol’ Man River. Science 2003;301:56–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Paul WE, Mage RG. Elvin A. Kabat (1914-2000). Nature 2000;407:316.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rieping W, Habeck M, Nilges M. Inferential structure determination. Science 2005;309:303–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang C, Wu B, Beglopoulos V, Wines-Samuelson M, Zhang D, Dragatsis I, et al. Presenilins are essential for regulating neurotransmitter release. Nature 2009;460:632–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Leibowitz ML, Bova A, Hammond PB. The Endowment Model of Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Froitzheim N, Schmid SM, editors. Orogenic Processes in the Alpine Collision Zone. vol. 3. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nicholson BD. Anticonvulsant Medications for Treatment of Neuropathic and “Functional” Pain. In: Deer TR, Leong MS, Gordin V, editors. Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical Approaches: the AMERICAN ACADEMY of PAIN MEDICINE Textbook on Patient Management, New York, NY: Springer; 2015, p. 51–7.

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. Clovis People Were Ancestors to Nearly All Native Americans. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/clovis-people-were-ancestors-nearly-all-native-americans/ (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. OPM Retirement Modernization: Progress Has Been Hindered by Longstanding Information Technology Management Weaknesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Fleming TC. The Academic Identity Experience of Liberal Arts Faculty in the Age of New Managerialism. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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

[1]

Greenhouse L. Free Rein for Immigration Agents. New York Times 2017:A27.

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

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