How to format your references using the Haematologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Haematologica. 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

Bromm V. Astronomy. The cosmic Rosetta stone. Science 2008;321(5889):647–648.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keeling PJ, Palmer JD. Parabasalian flagellates are ancient eukaryotes. Nature 2000;405(6787):635–637.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weber W, Riesen S, Siegmann HC. Magnetization precession by hot spin injection. Science 2001;291(5506):1015–1018.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Armond JW, Saha K, Rana AA, et al. A stochastic model dissects cell states in biological transition processes. Sci Rep 2014;43692.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sox HC, Higgins MC, Owens DK. Medical Decision Making. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Cezon M, Wolfsthal Y, editors. Towards a Service-Based Internet. ServiceWave 2010 Workshops: International Workshops, OCS, EMSOA, SMART, and EDBPM 2010, Ghent, Belgium, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XXIX, 209 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Fernández-Tobías I, Campos PG, Cantador I, Díez F. A Contextual Modeling Approach for Model-Based Recommender Systems. In: Bielza C, Salmerón A, Alonso-Betanzos A, et al., editors. Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 15th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2013, Madrid, Spain, September 17-20, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p42–51.

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 Haematologica.

Blog post

Luntz S. Arthropods Shrink In Warm Water But Not In Hot Air. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/arthropods-shrink-warm-water-not-hot-air/ (2015, accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Highway Projects: Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects. GAO-01-985RWashington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; August 31, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Newsom SM. Love and Creativity: A Shared Dynamic. Doctoral DissertationPacifica Graduate Institute; 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

Pilon M. Family of Seau Decides To Give Brain for Study. New York Times, May 5, 2012, D3.

In-text citations

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

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	Haematologica
Abbreviation	Haematologica
ISSN (print)	0390-6078
ISSN (online)	1592-8721
Scope	Hematology