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

Kitano H. Cancer robustness: tumour tactics. Nature. 2003;426(6963):125.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tang S, Presgraves DC. Evolution of the Drosophila nuclear pore complex results in multiple hybrid incompatibilities. Science. 2009;323(5915):779–782.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlson RW, Boyet M, Horan M. Chondrite barium, neodymium, and samarium isotopic heterogeneity and early Earth differentiation. Science. 2007;316(5828):1175–1178.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Satzinger KJ, Zhong YP, Chang H-S, et al. Quantum control of surface acoustic-wave phonons. Nature. 2018;

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight JG. Handbook of Petroleum Product Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Learning and Collaboration Technologies: Third International Conference, LCT 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-22, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Espinosa HD. In-Situ Electron Microscopy Testing of Nanostructures. Experimental Analysis of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 1–6, 2007. 2007;9–10.

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

Fang J. Bird Cries Wolf, Then Steals Your Juicy Grub. IFLScience. 2014;

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. Information Technology Investment Management: An Overview of GAO’s Assessment Framework (Exposure Draft). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Al-Qazzaz AL. A kinetic study of the radiolytic degradation of phthalates in aqueous solutions. 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

Bruno J. Watching Coral Reefs Die. New York Times. 2017;SR8.

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