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

Mervis, J., 2004. Department of Energy. Nominee scores cabinet hat trick. Science 306, 2018.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bell, J.J., Bhandoola, A., 2008. The earliest thymic progenitors for T cells possess myeloid lineage potential. Nature 452, 764–767.

A journal article with 3 authors

Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M., Sakbodin, M., Wang, Z., 2006. Regenerative adsorption and removal of H2S from hot fuel gas streams by rare earth oxides. Science 312, 1508–1510.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Alley, W.M., Healy, R.W., LaBaugh, J.W., Reilly, T.E., 2002. Flow and storage in groundwater systems. Science 296, 1985–1990.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Broome, J., 2017. Weighing Goods. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

El Naqa, I., Li, R., Murphy, M.J. (Eds.), 2015. Machine Learning in Radiation Oncology: Theory and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Parker, D.S., Katsanis, N., 2011. Ciliary Syndromes and Obesity, in: Lustig, R.H. (Ed.), Obesity Before Birth: Maternal and Prenatal Influences on the Offspring, Endocrine Updates. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 71–93.

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., 2014. NASA Wants To Establish A Floating Cloud City To Study Venus [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-wants-establish-floating-cloud-city-study-venus/ (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, 2004. Mass Transit: FTA Needs to Better Define and Assess Impact of Certain Policies on New Starts Program (No. GAO-04-748). 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

Shen, H., 2009. Organization -employee relationships model: A two -sided story (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Montague, J., 2017. A Storied Name in Soccer Faces an Uncertain Future. New York Times B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bell and Bhandoola, 2008; Mervis, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Bell and Bhandoola, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Alley et al., 2002)

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