How to format your references using the Transfusion and Apheresis Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transfusion and Apheresis Science. 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]

Storb R. Edward Donnall Thomas (1920-2012). Nature 2012;491:334.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Elbert T, Heim S. A light and a dark side. Nature 2001;411:139.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Griffin AS, West SA, Buckling A. Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria. Nature 2004;430:1024–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lorch JM, Meteyer CU, Behr MJ, Boyles JG, Cryan PM, Hicks AC, et al. Experimental infection of bats with Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome. Nature 2011;480:376–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Homès B. Fundamentals of Software Testing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Basin D, Mitchell JC, editors. Principles of Security and Trust: Second International Conference, POST 2013, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, Rome, Italy, March 16-24, 2013. Proceedings. vol. 7796. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sokolova MV, Fernández Caballero A. Data and Results. In: Fernández Caballero A, editor. Decision Making in Complex Systems: The DeciMaS Agent-based Interdisciplinary Framework Approach, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 139–67.

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 Transfusion and Apheresis Science.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. A 700,000-Year-Old Fossil Find Shows The Hobbits’ Ancestors Were Even Smaller. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-700000-year-old-fossil-find-shows-the-hobbits-ancestors-were-even-smaller/ (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. GAO’s Need for an Interim Management Data System (MDS). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Errett R. Acid Mine Drainage In The Big Muddy River Watershed. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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]

Vecsey G. Even After Prison And an Ankle Injury, Burress Says He’s Ready. New York Times 2011:B13.

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	Transfusion and Apheresis Science
Abbreviation	Transfus. Apher. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1473-0502
Scope	Hematology