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

Blackburn EH. Telomere states and cell fates. Nature 2000; 408: 53–56.

A journal article with 2 authors

Camerer CF, Fehr E. When does ‘economic man’ dominate social behavior? Science 2006; 311: 47–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thitamadee S, Tuchihara K, Hashimoto T. Microtubule basis for left-handed helical growth in Arabidopsis. Nature 2002; 417: 193–196.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nanayama F, Satake K, Furukawa R, Shimokawa K, Atwater BF, Shigeno K et al. Unusually large earthquakes inferred from tsunami deposits along the Kuril trench. Nature 2003; 424: 660–663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stahl S. Real Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Okaie Y. Target Detection and Tracking by Bionanosensor Networks. Springer: Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Sellitto A, Cimmelli VA, Jou D. Weakly Nonlocal and Nonlinear Heat Transport. In: Cimmelli VA, Jou D (eds). Mesoscopic Theories of Heat Transport in Nanosystems. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016, pp 109–132.

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

Carpineti A. Scientists Can’t Find The Missing CO2 On Mars That Explains How It Had Water. IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-cant-find-the-missing-co2-on-mars-that-explains-how-it-had-water/ (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. Survey To Identify Models Used by Executive Agencies in the Policymaking Process. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Koons LM. An outreach program for homeless individuals: A grant proposal. 2013.

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

Saslow L. 13 Hospitals to Remove Trans Fats From Meals. New York Times. 2006; : LI2.

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