How to format your references using the Journal of Hematopathology citation style

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

Tegmark M (2007) Many lives in many worlds. Nature 448:23–24

A journal article with 2 authors

Gubin MM, Schreiber RD (2015) CANCER. The odds of immunotherapy success. Science 350:158–159

A journal article with 3 authors

Norris DJ, Efros AL, Erwin SC (2008) Doped nanocrystals. Science 319:1776–1779

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu M, Montgomery MK, Fiveash CE, et al (2014) PPARα-independent actions of omega-3 PUFAs contribute to their beneficial effects on adiposity and glucose homeostasis. Sci Rep 4:5538

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maini AK, Agrawal V (2006) Satellite Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Sun X-H, Qu W, Stojmenovic I, et al (2014) Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 14th International Conference, ICA3PP 2014, Dalian, China, August 24-27, 2014. Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bensebaa K, Banon GJF, Fonseca LMG, Erthal GJ (2008) On-orbit Spatial Resolution Estimation of CBERS-2 Imaging System Using Ideal Edge Target. In: Damiani E, Yétongnon K, Schelkens P, et al (eds) Signal Processing for Image Enhancement and Multimedia Processing. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 37–48

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 Journal of Hematopathology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Can Elusive Cancer Stem Cells Seed New Tumours Months After Chemotherapy? 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 (2014) Public Transit: Length of Development Process, Cost Estimates, and Ridership Forecasts for Capital-Investment Grant Projects. 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

Lytle SC (2010) Giving voice to the past: New editions of select repertoire of the 26th Regiment Band, North Carolina troops, C.S.A. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Walsh MW (2014) Senate Report Says Caterpillar Used Swiss Subsidiary to Reduce Taxes. New York Times B3

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	Journal of Hematopathology
Abbreviation	J. Hematop.
ISSN (print)	1868-9256
ISSN (online)	1865-5785
Scope	Hematology Histology Pathology and Forensic Medicine