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

Cosgrove DJ. Loosening of plant cell walls by expansins. Nature. 407(6802), 321–326 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Reid G, Flonta ML. Physiology. Cold current in thermoreceptive neurons. Nature. 413(6855), 480 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Howat IM, Joughin I, Scambos TA. Rapid changes in ice discharge from Greenland outlet glaciers. Science. 315(5818), 1559–1561 (2007).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Andersen JB, Rourke BC, Caiozzo VJ, Bennett AF, Hicks JW. Physiology: postprandial cardiac hypertrophy in pythons. Nature. 434(7029), 37–38 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambachtsheer KP. The Future of Pension Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Williams JH, Bokhorst-Heng WD, editors. (Re)Constructing Memory: Textbooks, Identity, Nation, and State. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Schoepf UJ. Cardiovascular. In: The Right Imaging Study: A Guide for Physicians. Eisenberg RL, Margulis AR (Eds.), Springer, New York, NY, 124–172 (2008).

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

Andrew D. Bizarre Cloud Formations Spotted Above British Columbia [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/strange-cloud-formations/.

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. Telecommunications Network: NASA Could Better Manage Its Planned Consolidation. 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

Shrank SM. ShareOne: An iOS resource application for caseworkers: A grant proposal. (2017).

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

Saslow L. If the Pay’s “Confidential,” It Just Disappeared. New York Times, 14LI2 (2007).

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