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

Bowles S (2008) Being human: Conflict: Altruism’s midwife. Nature 456:326–327

A journal article with 2 authors

Courseaux A, Nahon JL (2001) Birth of two chimeric genes in the Hominidae lineage. Science 291:1293–1297

A journal article with 3 authors

Adini Y, Sagi D, Tsodyks M (2002) Context-enabled learning in the human visual system. Nature 415:790–793

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen X, Hiller M, Sancak Y, Fuller MT (2005) Tissue-specific TAFs counteract Polycomb to turn on terminal differentiation. Science 310:869–872

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geotechni, Laackmann K, Balthaus H, et al (2015) Taschenbuch für den Tunnelbau 2015. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Karagiannis D, Mayr HC, Mylopoulos J (2016) Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Gilboa E (2014) Induction of Tumor Immunity by Targeted Inhibition of Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay. In: Rosenblatt J, Podack ER, Barber GN, Ochoa A (eds) Advances in Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy. Springer, New York, NY, pp 67–82

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) Russian Spacecraft Fails On Its Way To Orbit. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/russian-spacecraft-explodes/. 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 (1981) Followup on Actions To Improve Coordination and Utilization of Human Resources Research and Development. 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

Warner KS (2014) The narrative structure of children’s books used in language therapy: An analysis. 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

Dominus S (2014) Blood in the Tracks. New York Times MM30

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

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