How to format your references using the Blood Purification citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Blood Purification. 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	Download the output style file
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

Willyard C. Tiny steps towards an HIV vaccine. Nature. 2010 Jul;466(7304):S8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwarzman MR, Wilson MP. Science and regulation. New science for chemicals policy. Science. 2009 Nov;326(5956):1065–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lower SK, Hochella MF Jr, Beveridge TJ. Bacterial recognition of mineral surfaces: nanoscale interactions between Shewanella and alpha-FeOOH. Science. 2001 May;292(5520):1360–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kunze A, Bally M, Höök F, Larson G. Equilibrium-fluctuation-analysis of single liposome binding events reveals how cholesterol and Ca2+ modulate glycosphingolipid trans-interactions. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hickey R. A Dictionary of Varieties of English. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

Henningfield JE, London ED, Pogun S, editors. Nicotine Psychopharmacology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Yu WH, Yang Y, Park KN, Lim H. Sentiment-Property Extraction Using Korean Syntactic Features. In: Park JJ (jong H, Leung VCM, Wang C-L, Shon T, editors. Future Information Technology, Application, and Service: FutureTech 2012 Volume 2. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012; pp 23–30.

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 Purification.

Blog post

Luntz S. Signs Of 14,000-Year-Old Human Habitation Found In Southern South America [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/signs-of-14000-year-old-human-habitation-found-in-southern-south-america/

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. Financial Markets: Status of Computer Improvements at the New York Stock Exchange. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith MP. De la página a la pantalla: Memoria de la Guerra Civil española en la narrativa contemporánea. 2009

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

Cooper M, Walsh MW. Buying a Gun? States Consider Insurance Rule. New York Times. 2013 Feb;A1.

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 Purification
Abbreviation	Blood Purif.
ISSN (print)	0253-5068
ISSN (online)	1421-9735
Scope	General Medicine Hematology Nephrology