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

Mace GM. Ecology. Whose conservation? Science 2014;345(6204):1558–1560.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim SV, Flavell RA. Immunology. CD8alphaalpha and T cell memory. Science 2004;304(5670):529–530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mackenzie RB, Dewberry CT, Leopold KR. SULFUR CHEMISTRY. Gas phase observation and microwave spectroscopic characterization of formic sulfuric anhydride. Science 2015;349(6243):58–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Peter T, Marcolli C, Spichtinger P, Corti T, Baker MB, Koop T. Atmosphere. When dry air is too humid. Science 2006;314(5804):1399–1402.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Overhauser A. Anomalous Effects in Simple Metals. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Jensen TH, editor. RNA Exosome. New York, NY: Springer US; 2010. XVI, 144 p. 26 illus., 11 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Jalongo MR, Machado C. Roundtable Sessions. In: Machado C, editor. Making Effective Presentations at Professional Conferences: A Guide for Teachers, Graduate Students and Professors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p63–72.

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

Andrew E. Existing Drug Rejuvenates Brains Of Elderly Rats. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/approved-asthma-drug-rejuvenates-brains-elderly-rats/ (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. Examination of Possible “Buy-In” by Garrett AiResearch. PSAD-77-73Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; February 16, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Desam JR. Effective Nodal Placement in Overlay Networks Using Complexity Theory. Doctoral DissertationCalifornia State University, Long Beach; 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

Vecsey G. Three Derby Trainers, Each One of a Kind. New York Times, April 30, 2010, B12.

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