How to format your references using the Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Kroupa P. The initial mass function of stars: evidence for uniformity in variable systems. Science 2002;295:82–91.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Du H, Rosbash M. The U1 snRNP protein U1C recognizes the 5’ splice site in the absence of base pairing. Nature 2002;419:86–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Meylan E, Tschopp J, Karin M. Intracellular pattern recognition receptors in the host response. Nature 2006;442:39–44.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schwartz MK, Mills LS, McKelvey KS, Ruggiero LF, Allendorf FW. DNA reveals high dispersal synchronizing the population dynamics of Canada lynx. Nature 2002;415:520–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hossler FE. Ultrastructure Atlas of Human Tissues. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Taylor GK, Triantafyllou MS, Tropea C, editors. Animal Locomotion. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Amsler ML, Drago EC, Paira AR. Fluvial Sediments: Main Channel and Floodplain Interrelationships. In: Iriondo MH, Paggi JC, Parma MJ, editors. The Middle Paraná River: Limnology of a Subtropical Wetland, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 123–42.

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 Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. This Is What The Skeletons Of Famous Cartoon Characters Would Look Like. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/skeletons-famous-cartoon-characters/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Wood Utilization: Federal Research and Product Development Activities, Support, and Technology Transfer. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dalton R. The story of Huo Yuanjia and the narrative of national humiliation in post-Mao China. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Alexander K. A Squeeze Box Philharmonic. New York Times 2003:227.

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	Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy
Abbreviation	Hematol. Oncol. Stem Cell Ther.
ISSN (print)	1658-3876
Scope	General Medicine Hematology Oncology