How to format your references using the Expert Review of Hematology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of 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

[1]

Willyard C. Imaging: Seeing is believing. Nature. 2011;480(7377):S52-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Selby D, Creaser RA. Direct radiometric dating of hydrocarbon deposits using rhenium-osmium isotopes. Science. 2005;308(5726):1293–1295.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

McGuire JJ, Boettcher MS, Jordan TH. Foreshock sequences and short-term earthquake predictability on East Pacific Rise transform faults. Nature. 2005;434(7032):457–461.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Krause O, Tanaka M, Usuda T, et al. Tycho Brahe’s 1572 supernova as a standard type Ia as revealed by its light-echo spectrum. Nature. 2008;456(7222):617–619.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Plantin J-C. Participatory Mapping. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Wilson D, editor. Paediatric Musculoskeletal Disease: With an Emphasis on Ultrasound. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Horn D, Wagner T, Biermann D, et al. Model-Based Multi-objective Optimization: Taxonomy, Multi-Point Proposal, Toolbox and Benchmark. In: Gaspar-Cunha A, Henggeler Antunes C, Coello CC, editors. Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 8th International Conference, EMO 2015, Guimarães, Portugal, March 29 --April 1, 2015 Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 64–78.

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 Expert Review of Hematology.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. This Optical Illusion Of A Brick Wall Is Really Driving The Internet Nuts [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/optical-illusion-brick-wall-really-annoying-people/.

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. Aviation: Issues Associated With the Theft of Stock Used to Create Airline Tickets. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999. Report No.: RCED-99-219. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mbwiri FI. Remedial Math Instruction Intervention: Efficacy of Constructivist Practices on Alternative Students with Disabilities Mathematics Achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral 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]

Novick SM. Cocktails to Take Off the Chill. New York Times. 2016 Jan 31;LI10.

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	Expert Review of Hematology
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Hematol.
ISSN (print)	1747-4086
ISSN (online)	1747-4094
Scope	Hematology