How to format your references using the Critical Reviews in Oncology / Hematology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Reviews in Oncology / Hematology. 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

Bassham, D.C., 2015. Plant biology: Pigments on the move. Nature 526, 644–645.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beveridge, C., Morris, S., 2007. Order of merit. Nature 448, 508.

A journal article with 3 authors

Munday, J.N., Capasso, F., Parsegian, V.A., 2009. Measured long-range repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz forces. Nature 457, 170–173.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, S.Q., Roberts, D., Kharitonenkov, A., Zhang, B., Hanson, S.M., Li, Y.C., Zhang, L.-Q., Wu, Y.H., 2013. Endocrine protection of ischemic myocardium by FGF21 from the liver and adipose tissue. Sci. Rep. 3, 2767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, Z.-G., 2016. Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Tang, J., 2015. Lanthanide Single Molecule Magnets. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Moisan, M., Pelletier, J., 2012. Introduction to the Physics of HF Discharges, in: Pelletier, J. (Ed.), Physics of Collisional Plasmas: Introduction to High-Frequency Discharges. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 337–385.

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 Critical Reviews in Oncology / Hematology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Why We Fell Out Of Love With Algorithms Inspired By Nature [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. Department of Education: Monitoring of State Formula Grants by Office of Special Education Programs (No. HRD-91-91FS). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jo, S.M., 2009. A study of Korean students’ creativity in science using structural equation modeling (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

McWHORTER, J., 2017. How to Listen to Donald Trump Every Day for Years. New York Times SR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bassham, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bassham, 2015; Beveridge and Morris, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Beveridge and Morris, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Critical Reviews in Oncology / Hematology
Abbreviation	Crit. Rev. Oncol. Hematol.
ISSN (print)	1040-8428
Scope	General Medicine Geriatrics and Gerontology Hematology Oncology