How to format your references using the Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia. 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

Yang LH. Periodical cicadas as resource pulses in North American forests. Science. 2004;306(5701):1565-1567.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bland PA, Artemieva NA. Efficient disruption of small asteroids by Earth’s atmosphere. Nature. 2003;424(6946):288-291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pelechano V, Wei W, Steinmetz LM. Extensive transcriptional heterogeneity revealed by isoform profiling. Nature. 2013;497(7447):127-131.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li JS, Li SL, Tang YJ, et al. Heteroatoms ternary-doped porous carbons derived from MOFs as metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5130.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cronin R. Reading Victorian Poetry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Munkert MJ, Stubner S, Wulf T, eds. Founding a Company: Handbook of Legal Forms in Europe. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Yehezkel C, Haberman B. Bridging the Gap Between School Computing and the “Real World.” In: Mittermeir RT, ed. Informatics Education – The Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers: International Conference in Informatics in Secondary Schools – Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2006, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 7-11, 2006. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2006:38-47.

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 Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia.

Blog post

Andrew E. Fruit flies have been genetically modified to GLOW when they detect cancer. IFLScience. Published January 29, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fruit-flies-have-been-genetically-modified-glow-when-they-detect-cancer/

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. Improper Use of Federal Student Aid Funds for Lobbying Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dinh H. A Study of Cell-Based Genetic Algorithms with Applications to Neural Networks. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Spencer H, Sisario B. $3 Million Award in Rolling Stone Case. New York Times. November 8, 2016:B2.

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	Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia
Abbreviation	Clin. Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk.
ISSN (print)	2152-2650
Scope	Cancer Research Hematology Oncology