How to format your references using the Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 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

Hoag H. Southern light. Nature. 2007;447(7146):882.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atatüre M, Morton JJL. Quantum information. A gem of a quantum teleporter. Science. 2014;345(6196):510-511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnqvist G, Jones TM, Elgar MA. Insect behaviour: reversal of sex roles in nuptial feeding. Nature. 2003;424(6947):387.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Moy CM, Seltzer GO, Rodbell DT, Anderson DM. Variability of El Niño/Southern Oscillation activity at millennial timescales during the Holocene epoch. Nature. 2002;420(6912):162-165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vallin RW. The Elements of Cantor Sets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Binkley D, Menyailo O, eds. Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global Change: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Trees and Soil Interactions, Implications to Global Climate Change August 2004 Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Vol 55. Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Tomás AP. On the Enumeration of Permutominoes. In: Kosowski A, Walukiewicz I, eds. Fundamentals of Computation Theory: 20th International Symposium, FCT 2015, Gdańsk, Poland, August 17-19, 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2015:41-52.

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 Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. What Really Is A Planet? New Definition Solves Dilemma. IFLScience. November 10, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-really-planet-new-definition-solves-dilemma-no-pluto-still-isnt-one0/

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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: FBI Needs to Complete Business Continuity Plans. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wang X. Inferences on Gamma Distributions: Uncensored and Censored Cases. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 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

Corkery M. Deep Debt and Rivals Push Toy Chain Into Bankruptcy. New York Times. September 19, 2017:B6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Abbreviation	Biol. Blood Marrow Transplant.
ISSN (print)	1083-8791
Scope	Hematology Transplantation