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]

Spurgeon D. Canada plans reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions. Nature 2000;407:824.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Goldblatt C, Zahnle KJ. Faint young Sun paradox remains. Nature 2011;474:E3-4; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Vannucchi P, Remitti F, Bettelli G. Geological record of fluid flow and seismogenesis along an erosive subducting plate boundary. Nature 2008;451:699–703.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kohn A, Kovács A, Fan R, McIntyre GJ, Ward RCC, Goff JP. The antiferromagnetic structures of IrMn3 and their influence on exchange-bias. Sci Rep 2013;3:2412.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lincoln NB, Kneebone II, Macniven JAB, Morris RC. Psychological Management of Stroke. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Corsi C, Slapšak B, Vermeulen F, editors. Good Practice in Archaeological Diagnostics: Non-invasive Survey of Complex Archaeological Sites. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Benferhat S, Lagrue S, Tabia K. Interval-Based Possibilistic Networks. In: Straccia U, Calì A, editors. Scalable Uncertainty Management: 8th International Conference, SUM 2014, Oxford, UK, September 15-17, 2014. Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 37–50.

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]

Andrew E. The Best Planet Duo Of 2015 - Venus And Jupiter. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/best-planet-duo-2015-venus-and-jupiter/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Federal Aviation Administration’s Advanced Automation System Investment. 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

[1]

Zhao Y. Studies on Error Control of 3-D Zerotree Wavelet Video Streaming. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2005.

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]

Protess B, Eder S. Trump Group Drops Deal With the ‘Turkish Trump.’ New York Times 2017:A14.

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