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

Macilwain C. The time is right to confront misconduct. Nature. 2012 Aug 2;488(7409):7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sriskantharajah S, Ley SC. Cell biology. Turning off inflammation signaling. Science. 2010 Feb 26;327(5969):1093–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Doorn GS, Edelaar P, Weissing FJ. On the origin of species by natural and sexual selection. Science. 2009 Dec 18;326(5960):1704–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hornung V, Ablasser A, Charrel-Dennis M, Bauernfeind F, Horvath G, Caffrey DR, et al. AIM2 recognizes cytosolic dsDNA and forms a caspase-1-activating inflammasome with ASC. Nature. 2009 Mar 26;458(7237):514–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens H. Applied Building Physics. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2012.

An edited book

Villiers EM de, Hausen HZ, editors. TT Viruses: The Still Elusive Human Pathogens. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. X, 233 p. (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology; vol. 331).

A chapter in an edited book

Steiner A. Agroforestry and the Transition to the Future. In: Nair PKR, Garrity D, editors. Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 17–20. (Advances in Agroforestry).

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

Evans K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. World’s First Lab-Grown Chicken Has Been Tasted And Apparently It’s Delicious. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-first-labgrown-chicken-has-been-tasted-and-apparently-its-delicious/

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. Data Processing: USDA Needs To Better Manage Field-Office Computer Purchases. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Feb. Report No.: IMTEC-87-12.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grether S. All You Need is Love? An Examination of Interracial Divorce [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2012.

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

Gordon MR, Cooper H. Islamic State Leader Is Still at Large, Defense Secretary Says. New York Times. 2017 Jul 21;A7.

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