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]

Reimer PJ. Atmospheric science. Refining the radiocarbon time scale. Science 2012;338:337–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Doma MK, Parker R. Endonucleolytic cleavage of eukaryotic mRNAs with stalls in translation elongation. Nature 2006;440:561–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Heeney JL, Dalgleish AG, Weiss RA. Origins of HIV and the evolution of resistance to AIDS. Science 2006;313:462–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu M, Montgomery MK, Fiveash CE, Osborne B, Cooney GJ, Bell-Anderson K, et al. PPARα-independent actions of omega-3 PUFAs contribute to their beneficial effects on adiposity and glucose homeostasis. Sci Rep 2014;4:5538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dexter AL. Monitoring and Control of Information-Poor Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Amir A, Parida L, editors. Combinatorial Pattern Matching: 21st Annual Symposium, CPM 2010, New York, NY, USA, June 21-23, 2010. Proceedings. vol. 6129. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ravines P, Li L, Chan L, McElroy R. Some Science Behind the Daguerreotype: Nanometer and Sub-micrometer Realities On and Beneath the Surface. In: Dillmann P, Bellot-Gurlet L, Nenner I, editors. Nanoscience and Cultural Heritage, Paris: Atlantis Press; 2016, p. 123–58.

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]

Andrew E. FDA Delays Listing Calories On Menus Until 2016. IFLScience 2015.

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. Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor: Information on the Status and Cost of Needed Improvements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Scheepers EM. Psychotherapists’ use of outcome measures in psychotherapy practice: Differences related to academic background. Doctoral dissertation. Capella 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. Subject Changes, But Ryan Talks On. New York Times 2011:B11.

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