How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion. 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

Lepenies W (2001) Cultures of knowledge. Nature 410:629–630

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu J, Diamond J (2005) China’s environment in a globalizing world. Nature 435:1179–1186

A journal article with 3 authors

Oye KA, Lawson JCH, Bubela T (2015) Drugs: Regulate “home-brew” opiates. Nature 521:281–283

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang L, Lin RP, Larson DE, Luhmann JG (2008) Domination of heliosheath pressure by shock-accelerated pickup ions from observations of neutral atoms. Nature 454:81–83

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knuth E (2011) Trading Between the Lines. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Basedow J, Magnus U, Wolfrum R (2010) The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs 2007 & 2008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rauner F, Maclean R (2009) Areas of TVET Research. In: Rauner F, Maclean R (eds) Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 157–610

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 Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) 8 Million Tons Of Plastic Entered Our Oceans In 2010. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/8-million-tons-plastic-entered-our-oceans-2010/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2014) Federal Software Licenses: Better Management Needed to Achieve Significant Savings Government-Wide. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Prather MR (2010) Pink, blues, blacks, and the Union Jack: Mod’s reinterpretation of Britishness, 1962-1964. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Marx L (2013) Taking Their Very Sweet Time. New York Times ST14

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	Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion
Abbreviation	Indian J. Hematol. Blood Transfus.
ISSN (print)	0971-4502
ISSN (online)	0974-0449
Scope	Hematology