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

Leith, W., 2004. Geology. Building for earthquakes. Science 304, 1604.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huynh, K.D., Lee, J.T., 2003. Inheritance of a pre-inactivated paternal X chromosome in early mouse embryos. Nature 426, 857–862.

A journal article with 3 authors

Friedland, J.C., Lee, M.H., Boettiger, D., 2009. Mechanically activated integrin switch controls alpha5beta1 function. Science 323, 642–644.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ozbudak, E.M., Thattai, M., Lim, H.N., Shraiman, B.I., Van Oudenaarden, A., 2004. Multistability in the lactose utilization network of Escherichia coli. Nature 427, 737–740.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holt, J., 2013. The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford.

An edited book

Kotlarsky, J., Oshri, I., Willcocks, L.P. (Eds.), 2014. Governing Sourcing Relationships. A Collection of Studies at the Country, Sector and Firm Level: 8th Global Sourcing Workshop 2014, Val d’Isere, France, March 23-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sorgi, L., Schlosser, M., 2013. Integrating Color Sampling into Depth Based Bilayer Segmentation, in: Petrosino, A. (Ed.), Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2013: 17th International Conference, Naples, Italy, September 9-13, 2013. Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–40.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Did Asteroid Bombardment Make Life Possible? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/did-asteroid-bombardment-make-life-possible/ (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, 2015. Telecommunications: FCC Should Evaluate the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Lifeline Program (No. GAO-15-335). 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

Kamph, M., 2017. Examining Commodity, Agency, and Value: Prehistoric French Replicas, Casts, and “Frauds” within the National Museum of Natural History’s Collection (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Miller, S.K., 2013. Being ‘Partly Jewish.’ New York Times A31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leith, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Huynh and Lee, 2003; Leith, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Huynh and Lee, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ozbudak et al., 2004)

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