How to format your references using the Leukemia Supplements citation style

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

Watts C. Immunology. The bell tolls for phagosome maturation. Science 2004; 304: 976–977.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vukmirovic OG, Tilghman SM. Exploring genome space. Nature 2000; 405: 820–822.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao J, Benlekbir S, Rubinstein JL. Electron cryomicroscopy observation of rotational states in a eukaryotic V-ATPase. Nature 2015; 521: 241–245.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gao X, An H, Fang W, Huang X, Li H, Zhong W. Characteristics of the transmission of autoregressive sub-patterns in financial time series. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chowdhury D, Stauffer D. Principles of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Friedman H, Klein TW, Bendinelli M (eds.). Infectious Diseases and Substance Abuse. Springer US: Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Asakawa Y, Ludwiczuk A, Nagashima F. Chemical Constituents of Marchantiophyta. In: Ludwiczuk A, Nagashima F (eds). Chemical Constituents of Bryophytes: Bio- and Chemical Diversity, Biological Activity, and Chemosystematics. Springer: Vienna, 2013, pp 25–561.

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 Supplements.

Blog post

Andrew D. Raise A Cup – Of Coffee; WHO No Longer Says It Can Cause Cancer. IFLScience. 2016.

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. DOD Dependents Schools: Enrollment Categories, Numbers, and Locations. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Teo YM. Acculturation Levels, Social Media Usage and Their Relationship with Dietary Patterns among Asian American Young Adults. 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

Shear MD, Haberman M. In Interview, Bannon Contradicts Trump on North Korea, and Lashes Out at Rivals. New York Times. 2017; : A18.

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 Supplements
Abbreviation	Leuk. Suppl.
ISSN (print)	2044-5210
ISSN (online)	2044-5229
Scope