How to format your references using the European Journal of Haematology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Haematology. 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

Kreeger K. Access delayed. Nature. 2003 Mar 6;422(6927):96–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bada JL, Lazcano A. Origin of life. Some like it hot, but not the first biomolecules. Science. 2002 Jun 14;296(5575):1982–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nir E, Kleinermanns K, de Vries MS. Pairing of isolated nucleic-acid bases in the absence of the DNA backbone. Nature. 2000;408(6815):949–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

López-García P, Rodríguez-Valera F, Pedrós-Alió C, Moreira D. Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea Antarctic plankton. Nature. 2001 Feb 1;409(6820):603–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simmons M, Dalgleish E. Corporate Actions. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Keuper F, Oecking C, Degenhardt A, editors. Application Management: Challenges – Service Creation – Strategies. Wiesbaden: Gabler; 2011. XIII, 338 p.

A chapter in an edited book

The Ziggurat Group, Myles BS. Building Social Skills Instruction for Children with Asperger Syndrome. In: DuCharme RW, Gullotta TP, editors. Asperger Syndrome: A Guide for Professionals and Families. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2013. p. 91–111. (Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives).

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 European Journal of Haematology.

Blog post

Davis J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Sharks Have Their Own Social Network, And They’re Surprisingly Resilient. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sharks-have-their-own-social-network-and-theyre-surprisingly-resilient/

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. Transportation Security: Key Actions Have Been Taken to Enhance Mass Transit and Passenger Rail Security, but Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Federal Strategy and Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Jun. Report No.: GAO-09-678.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Armani MD. Nucleic acid extraction and detection across two-dimensional tissue samples [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

Hodara S. The City of Lights, When It Was First Lighted. New York Times. 2016 Jun 4;CT8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	European Journal of Haematology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Haematol.
ISSN (print)	0902-4441
ISSN (online)	1600-0609
Scope	General Medicine Hematology