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

Parker T. Sustainable energy: Cutting science’s electricity bill. Nature 2011; 480: 315–316.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilfanov M, Bogdán A. An upper limit on the contribution of accreting white dwarfs to the type Ia supernova rate. Nature 2010; 463: 924–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hawks J, de Ruiter DJ, Berger LR. PALEOANTHROPOLOGY. Comment on ‘Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia’. Science 2015; 348: 1326.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bornstein C, Nevo S, Giladi A, Kadouri N, Pouzolles M, Gerbe F et al. Single-cell mapping of the thymic stroma identifies IL-25-producing tuft epithelial cells. Nature 2018; 559: 622–626.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rogers DW. Concise Physical Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Shumaker R (ed.). Virtual Reality: Second International Conference, ICVR 2007, Held as part of HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

van Grembergen W, de Haes S. COBIT as a Framework for Enterprise Governance of IT. In: Van Grembergen W (ed). Enterprise Governance of Information Technology: Achieving Strategic Alignment and Value. Springer US: Boston, MA, 2009, pp 137–164.

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

O`Callaghan J. Is There Life On Mars? IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/space/is-there-life-on-mars/ (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. Proposed Facility Requirements for the National Center for Toxicological Research and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Underwood VL. The effect of guided reading instruction on reading achievement. 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

Powell M, Walsh MW. A.I.G. to Pay $725 Million In Ohio Case. New York Times. 2010; : B1.

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

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