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]

S.G. Perz, Sustainable development: The promise and perils of roads, Nature 513 (2014) 178–179.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Trainor, R. Krumlauf, Development. Riding the crest of the Wnt signaling wave, Science 297 (2002) 781–783.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Foulquier, U.M. Steckelings, T. Unger, Perspective: A tale of two receptors, Nature 493 (2013) S9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.D. Crall, C.M. Switzer, R.L. Oppenheimer, A.N. Ford Versypt, B. Dey, A. Brown, M. Eyster, C. Guérin, N.E. Pierce, S.A. Combes, B.L. de Bivort, Neonicotinoid exposure disrupts bumblebee nest behavior, social networks, and thermoregulation, Science 362 (2018) 683–686.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.W. Fitzgerald, B.J. Meacham, Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

F.T. Wallenberger, P.A. Bingham, eds., Fiberglass and Glass Technology: Energy-Friendly Compositions and Applications, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Zhao, L. Song, X. Fan, The Boundary Theory in Construction of Multicomponent Isothermal Sections, in: L. Song, X. Fan (Eds.), The Boundary Theory of Phase Diagrams and Its Application: Rules for Phase Diagram Construction with Phase Regions and Their Boundaries, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 107–121.

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]

K. Hamilton, How Man’s Best Friend Is Helping Cancer Treatment, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-mans-best-friend-is-helping-cancer-treatment/ (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, Mass Transit: Preliminary Views on Options for Additional Fiscal Oversight of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.R. Arendt, Symbiosis establishment and ecological effects of endohyphal bacteria on foliar fungi, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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]

B. Brantley, Theater; The Terrain Where Generations Meet, New York Times (2017) AR4.

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