How to format your references using the Leukemia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Leukemia. 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	Download the output style file
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

Barnard AS. Materials science: nanoscale locomotion without fuel. Nature 2015; 519: 37–38.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schadt E, Chang R. Genetics. A GPS for navigating DNA. Science 2012; 337: 1179–1180.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pier H, Kapon E, Moser M. Strain effects and phase transitions in photonic resonator crystals. Nature 2000; 407: 880–883.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Han T, Yuan T, Li B, Qiu C-W. Homogeneous thermal cloak with constant conductivity and tunable heat localization. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 1593.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iosifescu M, Limnios N, Oprişan G. Introduction to Stochastic Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Herrmann HC (ed.). Interventional Cardiology: Percutaneous Noncoronary Intervention. Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Meneguzzi F, Luck M. Composing High-Level Plans for Declarative Agent Programming. In: Baldoni M, Son TC, Riemsdijk MB van, Winikoff M (eds). Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies V: 5th International Workshop, DALT 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 14, 2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, pp 69–85.

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 Leukemia.

Blog post

Hamilton K. A Thermonuclear Bomb Slammed Into A North Carolina Farm In 1961 – And Part Of It Is Still Missing. IFLScience. 2017.

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. [Perspectives on Evaluating Federally Sponsored Research and Development in the United States]. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Heckman KA. Pedogenesis & carbon dynamics across a lithosequence under ponderosa pine. 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

Pilon M. Olympic Spot Conceded Without Runoff. New York Times. 2012; : B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Leukemia
Abbreviation	Leukemia
ISSN (print)	0887-6924
ISSN (online)	1476-5551
Scope	Cancer Research Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Hematology