How to format your references using the British Journal of Haematology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Haematology. 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

Miller, D.M. (2007) Neuroscience. Synapses here and not everywhere. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317, 907–908.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rees, D.C. & Howard, J.B. (2003) The interface between the biological and inorganic worlds: iron-sulfur metalloclusters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300, 929–931.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boudvillain, M., de Lencastre, A. & Pyle, A.M. (2000) A tertiary interaction that links active-site domains to the 5’ splice site of a group II intron. Nature, 406, 315–318.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hunte, F., Jaroszynski, J., Gurevich, A., Larbalestier, D.C., Jin, R., Sefat, A.S., McGuire, M.A., Sales, B.C., Christen, D.K. & Mandrus, D. (2008) Two-band superconductivity in LaFeAsO0.89F0.11 at very high magnetic fields. Nature, 453, 903–905.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheller-Sheridan, C. (2011)Basic Guide to Dental Instruments West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yi, C.-C. ed. (2013)The Psychological Well-being of East Asian Youth Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Park, D.J. & Yoon, M. (2014)Optimum Confidence Interval Analysis in Two-Factor Mixed Model with a Concomitant Variable for Gauge Study. In Optimization and Control Methods in Industrial Engineering and Construction, Xu H & Wang X (eds) pp 53–68. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 British Journal of Haematology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016) The Arctic Is Experiencing Its Earliest Ever Snowmelt. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/arctic-experiencing-its-earliest-ever-snowmelt/ [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

Government Accountability Office (1993)Federal Research: Super Collider--National Security Benefits, Similar Projects, and Cost Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tate, K.J. (2014) Utilizing Canines in a Public School Setting: A Case Study.

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

Carlson, L. (2010) Come Committed or Stay on the Couch. New York Times, MB3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Miller, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Miller, 2007; Rees & Howard, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Rees & Howard, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Hunte et al, 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Haematology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Haematol.
ISSN (print)	0007-1048
ISSN (online)	1365-2141
Scope	Hematology