How to format your references using the BMC Blood Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BMC Blood Disorders. 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. Keller U. Recent developments in compact ultrafast lasers. Nature. 2003;424:831–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Azzalin CM, Lingner J. Cell biology. Telomere wedding ends in divorce. Science. 2004;304:60–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zanardi I, Zifarelli G, Pusch M. An optical assay of the transport activity of ClC-7. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1231.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Srour M, Rivière J-B, Pham JMT, Dubé M-P, Girard S, Morin S, et al. Mutations in DCC cause congenital mirror movements. Science. 2010;328:592.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Landragin F. Man-Machine Dialogue. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. De Voogt P, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 208: Perfluorinated alkylated substances. 1st edition. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Osei-Bryson K-M, Ngwenyama O. An Approach for Using Data Mining to Support Theory Development. In: Osei-Bryson K-M, Ngwenyama O, editors. Advances in Research Methods for Information Systems Research: Data Mining, Data Envelopment Analysis, Value Focused Thinking. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014. p. 23–43.

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 BMC Blood Disorders.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Flatworm Mating: Literally a Cockblock. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/flatworm-mating-literally-cockblock/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Higher Education: Information on Minority-Targeted Scholarships. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Frederiksen MD. Engaging physicians to support corporate compliance programs: A grounded theory study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 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

1. Ivory D, Ruiz RR. G.M. Resists Expanding Victims’ Fund. New York Times. 2014;:B1.

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	BMC Blood Disorders
ISSN (print)	1471-2326
Scope