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]

Germain RN. The art of the probable: system control in the adaptive immune system. Science. 2001;293(5528):240–245.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Damasio A, Meyer K. Behind the looking-glass. Nature. 2008;454(7201):167–168.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gagneux P, Moore JJ, Varki A. The ethics of research on great apes. Nature. 2005;437(7055):27–29.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kishimoto T, Ando J, Tatara S, et al. Alloparenting for chimpanzee twins. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hoskins BJ, James IN. Fluid Dynamics of the Midlatitude Atmosphere. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Poibeau T, Saggion H, Piskorski J, et al., editors. Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Er MJ, Duda P. On the Uniform Convergence of the Orthogonal Series-Type Kernel Regression Neural Networks in a Time-Varying Environment. In: Rutkowski L, Korytkowski M, Scherer R, et al., editors. Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing: 11th International Conference, ICAISC 2012, Zakopane, Poland, April 29-May 3, 2012, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 39–46.

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]

Andrew E. Study Reveals Complexity Of Shark Sensing [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/study-reveals-complexity-shark-sensing/.

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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Faces Substantial Challenges in Developing New Space Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009. Report No.: GAO-09-705T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Stout J. The Effects of Discipline with African-American Males at an Alternative Middle School: The Perceptions of Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Administrators, and Other Academic Stakeholders [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]

Kishkovsky S. Russia: Prosecutors Investigate After Exhibition Draws Complaints. New York Times. 2012 Dec 8;A7.

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