How to format your references using the Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Grangier P. Physics. Make it quantum and continuous. Science. 2011;332:313–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nagamatsu S, Ohara-Imaizumi M. Cell biology. IP7 debut in insulin release. Science. 2007;318:1249–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Oganov AR, Brodholt JP, Price GD. The elastic constants of MgSiO3 perovskite at pressures and temperatures of the Earth’s mantle. Nature. 2001;411:934–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bull MJ, Jolley KA, Bray JE, Aerts M, Vandamme P, Maiden MCJ, et al. The domestication of the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Tung C-H, Sheng GTT, Lu C-Y. ULSI Semiconductor Technology Atlas. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Batten L, Li G, editors. Applications and Techniques in Information Security: 6th International Conference, ATIS 2016, Cairns, QLD, Australia, October 26-28, 2016, Proceedings. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Morozov M, Gerasimov A, Fominykh M, Smorkalov A. Asynchronous Immersive Classes in a 3D Virtual World: Extended Description of vAcademia. In: Gavrilova ML, Tan CJK, Kuijper A, editors. Transactions on Computational Science XVIII: Special Issue on Cyberworlds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 81–100.

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 Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Male Zebra Finches Without Moms Prefer Other Males As Mates [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-zebra-finches-without-moms-prefer-other-males-mates/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. FAA’s Implementation of a Performance Standard for Passenger Screening Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Oct. Report No.: T-RCED-88-4.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Viator L. Thanatos [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

1. Protess B. Law Firm Stocks Ranks With Ex-Federal Officials. New York Times. 2017 Apr 12;B5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Hematol. Malig. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1558-8211
ISSN (online)	1558-822X
Scope	Cancer Research Hematology Oncology