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

Hublin J-J. Anthropology. How to build a Neandertal. Science 2014; 344: 1338–1339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Whitesides GM, Grzybowski B. Self-assembly at all scales. Science 2002; 295: 2418–2421.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lepper C, Conway SJ, Fan C-M. Adult satellite cells and embryonic muscle progenitors have distinct genetic requirements. Nature 2009; 460: 627–631.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Alloing M, Lemaître A, Galopin E, Dubin F. Optically programmable excitonic traps. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 1578.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laykin E. Investigative Computer Forensics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

Wu S, Fan Y, Tian Y (eds.). Atlas of Single-Incision Laparoscopic Operations in General Surgery. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Krzeszowiec W, Gabryś H. Intracellular Movements: Integration at the Cellular Level as Reflected in the Organization of Organelle Movements. In: Wojtaszek P (ed). Mechanical Integration of Plant Cells and Plants. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp 91–116.

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

Davis J. August Ties With July As The Hottest Month Ever Recorded. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/august-ties-with-july-as-the-hottest-month-ever-recorded/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Pipeline Safety: New Risk Assessment Program Could Help Evaluate Inspection Cycle. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Risley L. Exploring Congruency between John A. Henschke’s Practice and Scholarship. 2012.

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

Crow K. A Local Board’s Coup On the Upper West Side. New York Times. 2001; : 145.

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