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

Erb, D.K. (2015) Feedback in low-mass galaxies in the early Universe. Nature, 523, 169–176.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacLean, R.C. & Gudelj, I. (2006) Resource competition and social conflict in experimental populations of yeast. Nature, 441, 498–501.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalas, P., Graham, J.R. & Clampin, M. (2005) A planetary system as the origin of structure in Fomalhaut’s dust belt. Nature, 435, 1067–1070.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zhang, R., Xu, Y., Wen, B., Sheng, N. & Fang, H. (2014) Enhanced permeation of a hydrophobic fluid through particles with hydrophobic and hydrophilic patterned surfaces. Scientific reports, 4, 5738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kampen, T.U. (2010)Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Beckner, M. (2013)Microsoft Dynamics CRM API Development for Online and On-Premise Environments Arisawa T (ed) Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Keller, J.K. & Smith, C.R. (2014)Landscape Sampling Areas Versus Actual Location of Taxonomic Survey. In Improving GIS-based Wildlife-Habitat Analysis, Smith CR (ed) pp 57–68. 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

Carpineti, A. (2015) Severe Solar Storms Might Go Undetected. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/severe-solar-storms-might-go-undetected/ [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 (1987)[Comments on STURA Act’s Effects on Funding for Los Angeles Metrorail System] 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

O’Neil, D.M. (2013) Climate frequencies of the early Holocene from Foy Lake, Montana.

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

Feeney, K. (2009) Downtown Dumplings. New York Times, NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Erb, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Erb, 2015; MacLean & Gudelj, 2006).

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

Two authors: (MacLean & Gudelj, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al, 2014)

About the journal

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