How to format your references using the Leukemia Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Leukemia Research. 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

[1]

D.C. Cannatella, Comment on “Habitat split and the global decline of amphibians,” Science 320 (2008) 874; author reply 874.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Johnston, G.D. Stormo, Evolution. Heirlooms in the attic, Science 302 (2003) 997–999.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Schmitz, J. Mellor, R.A. Nicoll, Presynaptic kainate receptor mediation of frequency facilitation at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses, Science 291 (2001) 1972–1976.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Ganesh, E. Burstein, A. Guha-Niyogi, M.K. Louder, J.R. Mascola, L.W.J. Klomp, C. Wijmenga, C.S. Duckett, G.J. Nabel, The gene product Murr1 restricts HIV-1 replication in resting CD4+ lymphocytes, Nature 426 (2003) 853–857.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Sattler, Thermische Trennverfahren, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

M.C. Torri, Bridges Between Tradition and Innovation in Ethnomedicine: Fostering Local Development Through Community-Based Enterprises in India, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Andina, A. Vega-Corona, J.I. Seijas, M.J. Alarcòn, Application of Neural Networks, in: D. Andina, D.T. Pham (Eds.), Computational Intelligence: For Engineering and Manufacturing, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007: pp. 93–108.

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 Research.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Switzerland Could be Receiving Post by Drone, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/switzerland-could-be-receiving-post-drone/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, [Request for Opinion Concerning Exchange Agreements Between Patent and Trademark Office and Private Firms], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Rojas, ASD: A family approach curriculum, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 10 Tons Of Cold Ones, New York Times (2004) A12.

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	Leukemia Research
Abbreviation	Leuk. Res.
ISSN (print)	0145-2126
Scope	Cancer Research Hematology Oncology