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

Benderly BL (2005) Not your father’s postdoc. Science 308:717–718

A journal article with 2 authors

Loayza D, De Lange T (2003) POT1 as a terminal transducer of TRF1 telomere length control. Nature 423:1013–1018

A journal article with 3 authors

McNamara JM, Fawcett TW, Houston AI (2013) An adaptive response to uncertainty generates positive and negative contrast effects. Science 340:1084–1086

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kasera S, Herrmann LO, del Barrio J, et al (2014) Quantitative multiplexing with nano-self-assemblies in SERS. Sci Rep 4:6785

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abracen J, Looman J (2015) Treatment of High-Risk Sexual Offenders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Dössel O, Schlegel WC (2010) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/10 Biomaterials, Cellular and Tussue Engineering, Artificial Organs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Steinert M, Teufel S (2005) The European Mobile Data Service Dilemma. In: Krogstie J, Kautz K, Allen D (eds) Mobile Information Systems II: IFIP International Working Conference on Mobile Information Systems, (MOBIS) Leeds, UK, December 6–7, 2005. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 63–78

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

Davis J (2016) Bacteria Isolated In A Cave For 4 Million Years Is Resistant To 18 Different Antibiotics. In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) Aviation Safety: Commuter Airline Safety Would Be Enhanced With Better FAA Oversight. 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

Merritt KM (2017) Predicting the Success of Running Back Prospects in the National Football League. 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

Blanchard K (2010) Let the Pill Go Free. New York Times A27

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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