How to format your references using the Blood citation style

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

Humphries C. Drug development: a complicated path. Nature. 2014;515(7526):S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grimmer MR, Costello JF. Cancer: Oncogene brought into the loop. Nature. 2016;529(7584):34–35.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grutzendler J, Kasthuri N, Gan W-B. Long-term dendritic spine stability in the adult cortex. Nature. 2002;420(6917):812–816.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Thomson MC, Doblas-Reyes FJ, Mason SJ, et al. Malaria early warnings based on seasonal climate forecasts from multi-model ensembles. Nature. 2006;439(7076):576–579.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Al-Shuhail AA, Al-Dossary SA, Mousa WA. Seismic Data Interpretation using Digital Image Processing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Service Management: The New Paradigm in Retailing. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Weidner N, O’Brien KE, Wynne KT. Social Media Use: Antecedents and Outcomes of Sharing. Social Media in Employee Selection and Recruitment: Theory, Practice, and Current Challenges. 2016;79–101.

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.

Blog post

Luntz S. Ancient Populations Migrated Frequently, Mixing Up DNA. IFLScience. 2017;

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2009 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Survis FD. Residential lawn water use and lawn irrigation practices: Wellington, Florida. 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

Greenhouse L. Free Rein for Immigration Agents. New York Times. 2017;A27.

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
Abbreviation	Blood
ISSN (print)	0006-4971
ISSN (online)	1528-0020
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Immunology Hematology