How to format your references using the Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America (HOC). 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

Oettl A. Sociology: Honour the helpful. Nature 2012;489(7417):496–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Romanowicz B., Giardini D. Geophysics. The future of permanent seismic networks. Science 2001;293(5537):2000–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nygård J., Cobden DH., Lindelof PE. Kondo physics in carbon nanotubes. Nature 2000;408(6810):342–6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Khare G., Reddy PV., Sidhwani P., et al. KefB inhibits phagosomal acidification but its role is unrelated to M. tuberculosis survival in host. Sci Rep 2013;3:3527.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nova R. Soil Mechanics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Frank U., Loucopoulos P., Pastor Ó., et al. The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 7th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, PoEM 2014, Manchester, UK, November 12-13, 2014. Proceedings. vol. 197. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Shi J., Lu H., Lu J., et al. A Skylining Approach to Optimize Influence and Cost in Location Selection. In: Bhowmick SS, Dyreson CE, Jensen CS et al., editors. Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 19th International Conference, DASFAA 2014, Bali, Indonesia, April 21-24, 2014. Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 61–76.

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 Clinics of North America.

Blog post

Andrew D. What If Intelligent Machines Could Learn From Each Other? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-if-intelligent-machines-could-learn-from-each-other/. 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. Commercial Aviation: Impact of Airline Crew Scheduling on Delays and Cancellations of Commercial Flights. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Joubert BR. Human genetic susceptibility to mother to child transmission of HIV: A study of mother-infant pairs in Malawi. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009.

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

Williams J. Working Toward a Sunny Version of ‘Jurassic Park.’ New York Times 2017:C4.

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	Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America
Abbreviation	Hematol. Oncol. Clin. North Am.
ISSN (print)	0889-8588
ISSN (online)	1558-1977
Scope	Hematology Oncology