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

Clawson GA. Cancer. Fusion for moving. Science. 2013 Nov;342(6159):699–700.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang J, Chan FK-M. Cell biology. RIPK3 takes another deadly turn. Science. 2014 Mar;343(6177):1322–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zenkin N, Yuzenkova Y, Severinov K. Transcript-assisted transcriptional proofreading. Science. 2006 Jul;313(5786):518–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ranjani V, Janeček S, Chai KP, Shahir S, Abdul Rahman RNZR, Chan K-G, et al. Protein engineering of selected residues from conserved sequence regions of a novel Anoxybacillus α-amylase. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul;4:5850.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Exposito E. Advanced Transport Protocols. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Liu B-L, Lee S-J, Wang L, Li X, Xiao J-H, editors. Contemporary Logistics in China: Consolidation and Deepening. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Strøm G. The Reader Creates a Personal Meaning: A Comparative Study of Scenarios and Human-centred Stories. In: McEwan T, Gulliksen J, Benyon D, editors. People and Computers XIX — The Bigger Picture: Proceedings of HCI 2005. London: Springer; 2006; pp 53–68.

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

Andrew E. Early MAVEN Results Offer Clues Of What Depleted The Atmosphere of Mars [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Dec [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/early-maven-results-offer-clues-what-depleted-atmosphere-mars/

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. Space Acquisitions: Committing Prematurely to the Transformational Satellite Program Elevates Risks for Poor Cost, Schedule, and Performance Outcomes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Osifalujo A. Code-switching in Working African Americans: Internalized Racism, Minority Status, and Organizational Commitment. 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

Paulson M. Trump Twitter Quarrel With Michael Moore. New York Times. 2017 Oct;C3.

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

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