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

Mace, R. (2008) Reproducing in cities. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319, 764–766.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coulson, T. & Clegg, S. (2014) Population biology: fur seals signal their own decline. Nature, 511, 414–415.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lappe, M., Awater, H. & Krekelberg, B. (2000) Postsaccadic visual references generate presaccadic compression of space. Nature, 403, 892–895.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Olsson, A., Ebert, J.P., Banaji, M.R. & Phelps, E.A. (2005) The role of social groups in the persistence of learned fear. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309, 785–787.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Held, T. (2014)In-situ-Verfahren zur Boden- und Grundwassersanierung Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Lin, S. & Huang, X. eds. (2011)Advanced Research on Computer Education, Simulation and Modeling: International Conference, CESM 2011, Wuhan, China, June 18-19, 2011. Proceedings, Part I Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gonçalves, R., Knorr, M. & Leite, J. (2014)Evolving Bridge Rules in Evolving Multi-Context Systems. In Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: 15th International Workshop, CLIMA XV, Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014. Proceedings, Bulling N Torre L van der Villata S Jamroga W & Vasconcelos W (eds) pp 52–69. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2015) Scientists Grow Hair Using Stem Cells. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-grow-hair-using-stem-cells/ [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 (2015)Teacher Preparation Programs: Education Should Ensure States Identify Low-Performing Programs and Improve Information-Sharing 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

Gary, J.O. (2011) Women’s social networking: Steps that organize low-technology users with emergency needs.

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

Herrman, J. (2017) Online platforms annexed much of our public sphere, playacting as little democracies — until extremists made them reveal their true nature. New York Times, MM18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mace, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Mace, 2008; Coulson & Clegg, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Coulson & Clegg, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Olsson et al, 2005)

About the journal

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