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

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

1. van Dam K. A more attractive career. Nature. 2007;446:946.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lister AM, Sher AV. Evolution and dispersal of mammoths across the Northern Hemisphere. Science. 2015;350:805–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gregoire LJ, Payne AJ, Valdes PJ. Deglacial rapid sea level rises caused by ice-sheet saddle collapses. Nature. 2012;487:219–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhang J, Zeng Z, Lin H-Q, Li Y-L. Pressure-induced planar N6 rings in potassium azide. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4358.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Akivis MA, Goldberg VV. Conformal Differential Geometry and Its Generalizations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1996.

An edited book

1. Joseph A, Melnikov A, Penkov I, editors. Highlights in Lie Algebraic Methods. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Goedertier S, Mues C, Vanthienen J. Specifying Process-Aware Access Control Rules in SBVR. In: Paschke A, Biletskiy Y, editors. Advances in Rule Interchange and Applications: International Symposium, RuleML 2007, Orlando, Florida, October 25-26, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 39–52.

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 Hematology.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Ancient Collision Created Ice Volcanoes On Saturn’s Moon [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-collision-created-ice-volcanoes-saturns-moon/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Information on Materials and Practices for Improving Highway Pavement Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Nov. Report No.: GAO-13-32R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Verdi KC. What Does It Mean to Be a Service-Learning Teacher? - An Autoethnography [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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

1. Brantley B. A Star Is Born (and Born and Born). New York Times. 2017 Apr 18;C1.

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 Hematology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Hematol.
ISSN (print)	0925-5710
ISSN (online)	1865-3774
Scope	Hematology