How to format your references using the International Journal of Hematologic Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Hematologic Oncology. 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

Padian K. Palaeontology: Dinosaur up in the air. Nature 521(7550), 40–41 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Humler E, Besse J. A correlation between mid-ocean-ridge basalt chemistry and distance to continents. Nature 419(6907), 607–609 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

Ganesh G, Osu R, Naito E. Feeling the force: returning haptic signals influence effort inference during motor coordination. Sci. Rep. 3, 2648 (2013).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schwender J, Goffman F, Ohlrogge JB, Shachar-Hill Y. Rubisco without the Calvin cycle improves the carbon efficiency of developing green seeds. Nature 432(7018), 779–782 (2004).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fiske JR, Fiske CA. The Big Book of Benefit Auctions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2009).

An edited book

Gorton I, Heineman GT, Crnković I et al. (Eds.). Component-Based Software Engineering: 9th International Symposium, CBSE 2006, Västerås, Sweden, June 29 - July 1, 2006. Proceedings. (Volume 4063). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006).

A chapter in an edited book

Kächele M, Schels M, Meudt S et al. On Annotation and Evaluation of Multi-modal Corpora in Affective Human-Computer Interaction. In: Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction: Second International Workshop, MA3HMI 2014, Held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, Singapore, September 14, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Böck R, Bonin F, Campbell N, Poppe R (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 35–44 (2015).

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 International Journal of Hematologic Oncology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. ‘A Planet Is Being Devoured By Its Young Star’ (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-planet-is-being-devoured-by-its-young-star/.

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. Interstate Commerce Commission: Impacts of Eliminating or Transferring Motor Carrier and Other Functions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1995).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harris DW. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, (2012).

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

Murphy MJO. The Best-Seller List 55 Years Ago, (2015).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Hematologic Oncology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Hematol. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	2045-1393
ISSN (online)	2045-1407
Scope	Hematology Oncology Pharmacology (medical)