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]

Hotamisligil GS. Inflammation and metabolic disorders. Nature 2006;444:860–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Patel S, Cone RD. Neuroscience: a cellular basis for the munchies. Nature 2015;519:38–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jones BF, Wuchty S, Uzzi B. Multi-university research teams: shifting impact, geography, and stratification in science. Science 2008;322:1259–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Sluijs A, Brinkhuis H, Schouten S, Bohaty SM, John CM, Zachos JC, et al. Environmental precursors to rapid light carbon injection at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary. Nature 2007;450:1218–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Angueira P, Romo JA. Microwave Line of Sight Link Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Nguyen N-T, Kołodziej J, Burczyński T, Biba M, editors. Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence X. vol. 7776. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ali AW, Mehta Y. Heavy Vehicle Simulator and Accelerated Pavement Testing Facility at Rowan University. In: Aguiar-Moya JP, Vargas-Nordcbeck A, Leiva-Villacorta F, Loría-Salazar LG, editors. The Roles of Accelerated Pavement Testing in Pavement Sustainability: Engineering, Environment, and Economics, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 53–64.

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. No S#!t Study: Scientists Find That Conspiracy Theorists Will Pretty Much Believe Anything You Tell Them. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/no-st-study-scientists-find-conspiracy-theorists-will-anything-other-conspiracy/ (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. Loma Prieta Earthquake: Collapse of the Bay Bridge and the Cypress Viaduct. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Beard AR. Absence Causation in Mechanistic Explanation. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Barry E, Kishkovsky S. Parsing Motives In Bolshoi Attack. New York Times 2013:C1.

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