How to format your references using the BMC Hematology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BMC Hematology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Grinnell F. Rethink our approach to assessing risk. Nature. 2015;522:257.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fauci AS, Collins FS. Benefits and risks of influenza research: lessons learned. Science. 2012;336:1522–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bloxham J, Zatman S, Dumberry M. The origin of geomagnetic jerks. Nature. 2002;420:65–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Li JJ, Zang XF, Mao JF, Tang M, Zhu YM, Zhuang SL. Overlapped optics induced perfect coherent effects. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3569.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Smith CL. Distillation Control. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. White C, editor. The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives. New York, NY: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Al-Bataineh O, Reynolds M, French T. Finding Best and Worst Case Execution Times of Systems Using Difference-Bound Matrices. In: Legay A, Bozga M, editors. Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems: 12th International Conference, FORMATS 2014, Florence, Italy, September 8-10, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 38–52.

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 Hematology.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Pro-Education Genes Becoming Less Common Over Time, Study Finds. IFLScience. 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/proeducation-genes-less-common-over-time/. 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. A Selected Bibliography on Computer Software Conversion. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Maafi N. Assessment of Volatile Metabolites for In Situ Detection of Fungal Decay of Wood. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University; 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. Hodara S. A Hilltop Museum, Legacy of a Trailblazing Architect. New York Times. 2015;:CT10.

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 Hematology
Abbreviation	BMC Hematol.
ISSN (online)	2052-1839
Scope