How to format your references using the Blood Cancer Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Blood Cancer Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Money NP. Fungal get-together. Nature 2000; 405: 751.

A journal article with 2 authors

Whalan S, Webster NS. Sponge larval settlement cues: the role of microbial biofilms in a warming ocean. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 4072.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coussens LM, Zitvogel L, Palucka AK. Neutralizing tumor-promoting chronic inflammation: a magic bullet? Science 2013; 339: 286–291.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sanfey AG, Rilling JK, Aronson JA, Nystrom LE, Cohen JD. The neural basis of economic decision-making in the Ultimatum Game. Science 2003; 300: 1755–1758.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cohen WR, Friedman EA. Labor and Delivery Care. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

Kibbe MR, Chen H (eds.). Leadership in Surgery. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Gao H, Chan N, Oh JK, Matyjaszewski K. Designing Hydrogels by ATRP. In: Loh XJ (ed). In-Situ Gelling Polymers: For Biomedical Applications. Springer: Singapore, 2015, pp 69–105.

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 Blood Cancer Journal.

Blog post

Andrews R. This Tiny Hamster With An Equally Tiny Cast Is All You Need To See Today. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-hamster-equally-tiny-cast-all-need-see-today/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Telephone Communications: Bell Operating Company Entry Into New Lines of Business. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fister TW. Activating the art classroom: Combining critical pedagogy, visual culture and socially engaged art to promote agency amongst high school students. 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

Krieger S. Thumbing, Old and New. New York Times. 2016; : A17.

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	Blood Cancer Journal
Abbreviation	Blood Cancer J.
ISSN (online)	2044-5385
Scope	Hematology Oncology