How to format your references using the Blood Cells, Molecules and Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Blood Cells, Molecules and Diseases. 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

[1]

N. Savage, Come into the light, Nature 483 (2012) S38-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Robert, M. Chaussidon, A palaeotemperature curve for the Precambrian oceans based on silicon isotopes in cherts, Nature 443 (2006) 969–972.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.R. Miller, R.A. Outlaw, B.C. Holloway, Graphene double-layer capacitor with ac line-filtering performance, Science 329 (2010) 1637–1639.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Weller, W. Cai, S.-K. Min, L. Wu, K. Ashok, T. Yamagata, More-frequent extreme northward shifts of eastern Indian Ocean tropical convergence under greenhouse warming, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6087.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Lalanne, Mechanical Shock, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

I. Tomkos, M. Spyropoulou, K. Ennser, M. Köhn, B. Mikac, eds., Towards Digital Optical Networks: COST Action 291 Final Report, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Berger, The Logical Strength of the Uniform Continuity Theorem, in: A. Beckmann, U. Berger, B. Löwe, J.V. Tucker (Eds.), Logical Approaches to Computational Barriers: Second Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2006, Swansea, UK, June 30-July 5, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 35–39.

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 Cells, Molecules and Diseases.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Deep Sea Explorers Spot Bizarre Fish That Doesn’t Look Real, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-footage-deepsea-spookfish/ (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, Department of Homeland Security: Oversight and Coordination of Research and Development Efforts Could Be Strengthened, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.H. Lawrence, Evaluation of a cultural practice and 2,4-D-based herbicide programs for glyphosateresistant Palmer amaranth management, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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]

T.S. Bernard, Reading, Writing and Rip-Offs, New York Times (2016) BU1.

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	Blood Cells, Molecules and Diseases
Abbreviation	Blood Cells Mol. Dis.
ISSN (print)	1079-9796
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Hematology