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

Wadman, M., 2007. Moment of reckoning. Nature 446, 844–845.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maniatis, T., Reed, R., 2002. An extensive network of coupling among gene expression machines. Nature 416, 499–506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acuna, D.E., Allesina, S., Kording, K.P., 2012. Future impact: Predicting scientific success. Nature 489, 201–202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mayama, S., Tamura, M., Hanawa, T., Matsumoto, T., Ishii, M., Pyo, T.-S., Suto, H., Naoi, T., Kudo, T., Hashimoto, J., Nishiyama, S., Kuzuhara, M., Hayashi, M., 2010. Direct imaging of bridged twin protoplanetary disks in a young multiple star. Science 327, 306–308.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Callard, F., Sartorius, N., Arboleda-Flórez, J., Bartlett, P., Helmchen, H., Stuart, H., Taborda, J., Thornicroft, G., 2012. Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Anderluh, G., Lakey, J. (Eds.), 2010. Proteins Membrane Binding and Pore Formation, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Dikshit, K.R., Dikshit, J.K., 2014. Relief Features of North-East India, in: Dikshit, J.K. (Ed.), North-East India: Land, People and Economy, Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 91–125.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Beijing Creates Anti-Smog Police To Tackle Air Polluters [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/beijing-creates-antismog-police-tackle-air-polluters/ (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, 1988. Civil Agency Aircraft: Agencies’ Use of Certain Aircraft to Transport Passengers (No. GGD-88-92BR). 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

Starr, M.J., 2015. Tests for Positive Selection on Genes Encoding Heat Shock Proteins in the Marine Slipper Snail, Crepidula fornicata (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Gurley, G., 2016. Death of a Red Carpet Reporter. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Maniatis and Reed, 2002; Wadman, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Maniatis and Reed, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mayama et al., 2010)

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