How to format your references using the Bone Marrow Transplantation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bone Marrow Transplantation. 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

Lea DW. Paleoclimate. Ice ages, the California Current, and Devils Hole. Science 2001; 293: 59–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Petro JB, Relman DA. Public health. Understanding threats to scientific openness. Science 2003; 302: 1898.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanaka Y, Okada Y, Hirokawa N. FGF-induced vesicular release of Sonic hedgehog and retinoic acid in leftward nodal flow is critical for left-right determination. Nature 2005; 435: 172–177.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu Y, Qiao J, Hou X, Pan S. Plutonium in soils from northeast China and its potential application for evaluation of soil erosion. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3506.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Safonov VO. Trustworthy Cloud Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

Kunisch K, Sprekels J, Leugering G, Tröltzsch F (eds.). Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of Partial Differential Equations. Birkhäuser: Basel, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Bogdanovic S. Solidarity Principle as a System Tool for Mitigation of Flood Impacts. In: Hefnawy M (ed). Advances in Food Protection: Focus on Food Safety and Defense. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011, pp 49–55.

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 Bone Marrow Transplantation.

Blog post

Luntz S. HIV Detected In ‘Cured’ Mississippi Baby. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-detected-cured-mississippi-baby/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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

Government Accountability Office. Very Light Jets: Several Factors Could Influence Their Effect on the National Airspace System. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tetley J. An investigation of self-authorship, hope, and meaning in life among second-year college students. 2009.

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

Greenhouse L. Before the Court: Are Munis Like Milk, or Garbage? New York Times. 2007; : C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Bone Marrow Transplantation
ISSN (online)	1476-5365
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