How to format your references using the Blood Reviews citation style

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

[1]

Sudan M. Mathematics. Quick and dirty refereeing? Science 2003;301:1191–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Loeb A, Waxman E. Cosmic gamma-ray background from structure formation in the intergalactic medium. Nature 2000;405:156–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Villegas CEP, Mendonça PB, Rocha AR. Optical spectrum of bottom-up graphene nanoribbons: towards efficient atom-thick excitonic solar cells. Sci Rep 2014;4:6579.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Torres-Padilla M-E, Parfitt D-E, Kouzarides T, Zernicka-Goetz M. Histone arginine methylation regulates pluripotency in the early mouse embryo. Nature 2007;445:214–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yanni SB. Translational ADMET for Drug Therapy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Poorten AJ van der, Stein A, editors. Algorithmic Number Theory: 8th International Symposium, ANTS-VIII Banff, Canada, May 17-22, 2008 Proceedings. vol. 5011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Thomsen HS. Management of Acute Adverse Reactions to Contrast Media. In: Thomsen HS, editor. Contrast Media: Safety Issues and ESUR Guidelines, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 19–25.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. The Blood Of Dragons Could Destroy Antibiotic Resistance. 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Telecommunications: FCC Lacked Authority to Create Corporations to Administer Universal Service Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Peterson DG. An application of geotechnical techniques to quantitative regional slope stability analysis San Clemente, California. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

[1]

Markoff J. Technologists Face Hurdles Before They Take Wheel. New York Times 2017:B4.

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Blood Rev.
ISSN (print)	0268-960X
Scope	Hematology Oncology