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

Kirby SH. Taking the temperature of slabs. Nature. 2000 Jan;403(6765):31, 33–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kepecs A, Fishell G. Interneuron cell types are fit to function. Nature. 2014 Jan;505(7483):318–26.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanaka S, Sawaya MR, Yeates TO. Structure and mechanisms of a protein-based organelle in Escherichia coli. Science. 2010 Jan;327(5961):81–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sibly RM, Barker D, Denham MC, Hone J, Pagel M. On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects. Science. 2005 Jul;309(5734):607–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Caferro W. Contesting the Renaissance. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Schultz IZ, Rogers ES, editors. Work Accommodation and Retention in Mental Health. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Gálvez A, López RL, Pulido RP, Burgos MJG. Biopreservation of Milk and Dairy Products. In: Grande Burgos MJ, Lucas López R, Pérez Pulido R, editors. Food Biopreservation. New York, NY: Springer; 2014; pp 49–69.

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. BMW Solar Charging Carport Unveiled [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/bmw-solar-charging-carport-unveiled/

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 Services: Agencies Complying with Revision to Federal Acquisition Regulation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang Y. Crossroads A World War II story. 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

Card J. A River With Too Many Fish. New York Times. 2017 Jan;TR10.

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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