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. Giacovazzo C. Herbert Hauptman (1917-2011). Nature. 2011;479:300.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Adam D, Butler D. Comet mission hangs in the balance. Nature. 2003;421:102.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rojstaczer S, Sterling SM, Moore NJ. Human appropriation of photosynthesis products. Science. 2001;294:2549–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Schneidman E, Berry MJ 2nd, Segev R, Bialek W. Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population. Nature. 2006;440:1007–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Smith RE, Carraher E, DeLisle P. Leading Collaborative Architectural Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Dupas C, Houdy P, Lahmani M, editors. Nanoscience: Nanotechnologies and Nanophysics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Andrade-Cetto J, Sanfeliu A. Unscented Transformation of Vehicle States. In: Sanfeliu A, editor. Environment Learning for Indoor Mobile Robots: A Stochastic State Estimation Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Map Building. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 97–106.

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. Carpineti A. Stellar Tails Reveal The Hidden Geometry Of Pulsars [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/stellar-tails-reveal-the-hidden-geometry-of-pulsars/

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. NASA: Interest Earned on Letter of Credit Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD-97-241R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kurtz WA. Under the Balaclava: A Case Study Examining Habits Within the Identity of Elite Counterterrorists [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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. Vecsey G. A Script, or Woods’s Road to Recovery? New York Times. 2010 Feb 23;B18.

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