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]

Guillén N. Infection biology: Nibbled to death. Nature 2014;508:462–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Doulatov S, Daley GQ. Development. A stem cell perspective on cellular engineering. Science 2013;342:700–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kalokairinou L, Howard HC, Borry P. Science and Regulation. Changes on the horizon for consumer genomics in the EU. Science 2014;346:296–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bivona TG, Pérez De Castro I, Ahearn IM, Grana TM, Chiu VK, Lockyer PJ, et al. Phospholipase Cgamma activates Ras on the Golgi apparatus by means of RasGRP1. Nature 2003;424:694–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bartlett K. The Experience of History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Zeimpekis V, Kaimakamis G, Daras NJ, editors. Military Logistics: Research Advances and Future Trends. vol. 56. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hou G, Zhou K, Chang J, Li R, Li M. Interrupt Modeling and Verification for Embedded Systems Based on Time Petri Nets. In: Wu C, Cohen A, editors. Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies: 10th International Symposium, APPT 2013, Stockholm, Sweden, August 27-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 62–76.

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

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Andrews R. Are All These Beached Giant Oarfish Warning Of An Impending Megaquake? IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beached-giant-oarfish-warning-impending-megaquake/ (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. Federal Research Grants: Opportunities Remain for Agencies to Streamline Administrative Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Holmstedt C. Low voltage switched-current cell and its application. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

McKINLEY JC Jr, Palmer E. Although Divided, Jury Delivers Guilty Verdict in 2015 Murder of Police Officer. New York Times 2017:A22.

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

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