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

Lundstrom CC. Rapid diffusive infiltration of sodium into partially molten peridotite. Nature 2000;403(6769):527–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bowles S., Posel D. Genetic relatedness predicts South African migrant workers’ remittances to their families. Nature 2005;434(7031):380–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Agrawal T., Schu P., Medigeshi GR. Adaptor protein complexes-1 and 3 are involved at distinct stages of flavivirus life-cycle. Sci Rep 2013;3:1813.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tashiro A., Sandler VM., Toni N., et al. NMDA-receptor-mediated, cell-specific integration of new neurons in adult dentate gyrus. Nature 2006;442(7105):929–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Owen JS., Fiedler-Kelly J. Introduction to Population Pharmacokinetic / Pharmacodynamic Analysis with Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Bigerna S. The Sustainability of Renewable Energy in Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Deng Z. Public Enforcement of Antitrust Law in China: Perspective of Procedural Fairness. In: Jenny F, and Katsoulacos Y, editors. Competition Law Enforcement in the BRICS and in Developing Countries: Legal and Economic Aspects. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 135–48.

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 E. Why Meat Is Important In The Global Battle Against Food Insecurity. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-meat-important-global-battle-against-food-insecurity/. 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. Tax Systems Modernization: Concerns Over Security and Privacy Elements of the Systems Architecture. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boos AL. The post-abortion experience: A content analysis. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

Wagner J. Mets’ Rally From 10-0 Hole Falls Short. New York Times 2016:SP4.

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

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