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

Westall F. Geochemistry. Life on an anaerobic planet. Science. 323(5913), 471–472 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

Tibbetts EA, Dale J. A socially enforced signal of quality in a paper wasp. Nature. 432(7014), 218–222 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Pryke SR, Rollins LA, Griffith SC. Females use multiple mating and genetically loaded sperm competition to target compatible genes. Science. 329(5994), 964–967 (2010).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cator LJ, Arthur BJ, Harrington LC, Hoy RR. Harmonic convergence in the love songs of the dengue vector mosquito. Science. 323(5917), 1077–1079 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaseghi SV. Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Loftsson H, Rögnvaldsson E, Helgadóttir S, editors. Advances in Natural Language Processing: 7th International Conference on NLP, IceTAL 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 16-18, 2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Halvorsen OH, Clarke D. Interacting with Drivers from Applications. In: OS X and iOS Kernel Programming. Clarke D (Ed.), Apress, Berkeley, CA, 69–98 (2011).

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

Davis J. Researchers find Physical Differences in Empathetic Peoples’ Brains. IFLScience (2015).

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. Substitution of Shore Leave for Sick Leave. 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

Choi KK. Conspiracy and alternative crimes in the Military Commissions Act of 2009: Is There a Way Out? (2010).

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. Still Dictating Orders, This Time at the Altar. New York Times, ST19 (2012).

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)