How to format your references using the Transfusion clinique et biologique citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transfusion clinique et biologique. 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

[1]

Hughes JD. Energy: A reality check on the shale revolution. Nature 2013;494:307–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brusco MJ, Köhn H-F. Comment on “Clustering by passing messages between data points.” Science 2008;319:726; author reply 726.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Williams CC, Jan CH, Weissman JS. Targeting and plasticity of mitochondrial proteins revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling. Science 2014;346:748–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lu Y, He W, Cao T, Guo H, Zhang Y, Li Q, et al. Elastic, conductive, polymeric hydrogels and sponges. Sci Rep 2014;4:5792.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hooper J, Zalewski A, Watanabe E. Advanced Charting Techniques for High Probability Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

MacGregor SP, Carleton T, editors. Sustaining Innovation: Collaboration Models for a Complex World. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fitzclarence L. Reflections on the Deakin Assemblage Of/For the Critical Project. In: Tinning R, Sirna K, editors. Education, Social Justice and the Legacy of Deakin University: Reflections of the Deakin Diaspora, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011, p. 41–52.

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 clinique et biologique.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Environmentally Friendly Silver Nanoparticles Could Fight Microbes. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/environmentally-friendly-silver-nanoparticles-could-fight-microbes/ (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. Climate Monitoring: NOAA Can Improve Management of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wetherington JM. The relationship between learning organization dimensions and performance in the nonprofit sector. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2010.

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]

Kishkovsky S. David Sarkisyan, 62, Moscow Preservationist. New York Times 2010:A25.

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 clinique et biologique
Abbreviation	Transfus. Clin. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1246-7820
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Biochemistry, medical Hematology