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. Smaglik P. Building the triangle: North Carolina. Nature. 2002;416:4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sonenberg N, Newgard CB. Protein synthesis. The perks of balancing glucose. Science. 2001;293:818–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Greiner J, Cuby JG, McCaughrean MJ. An unusually massive stellar black hole in the Galaxy. Nature. 2001;414:522–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jin X, Li Q, Li Y, Chen Z, Wei T-H, He X, et al. Energy level control: toward an efficient hot electron transport. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Schoukens J, Pintelon R, Rolain Y. Mastering System Identification in 100 Exercises. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Sobacı G, editor. Current Concepts and Management of Eye Injuries. London: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kouřimská H, Skuppin L, Springborn B. A Variational Principle for Cyclic Polygons with Prescribed Edge Lengths. In: Bobenko AI, editor. Advances in Discrete Differential Geometry. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 177–95.

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. Enemy Within: The Fungus That Lives In Your Mouth And Kills As Many As MRSA. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/enemy-within-fungus-lives-your-mouth-and-kills-many-mrsa/. 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. Space Transportation: NASA Has No Firm Need for Increasingly Costly Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle. 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. Royalty AR. U.S. Military Advisors in Iraq: A Phenomenological Research Study on the Role of National Culture on Tactical Decision-making during Wartime. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2015.

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. Kershner I, Goldman A, Blinder A, Pérez-Peña R. Teenager in Israel Is Arrested in Threats to U.S. Jewish Centers. New York Times. 2017;:A1.

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