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]

Woollings T. Atmospheric science. Ocean effects of blocking. Science 2011;334:612–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Helliker BR, Richter SL. Subtropical to boreal convergence of tree-leaf temperatures. Nature 2008;454:511–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Karlin S, Bergman A, Gentles AJ. Genomics. Annotation of the Drosophila genome. Nature 2001;411:259–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang D-H, Engle KM, Shi B-F, Yu J-Q. Ligand-enabled reactivity and selectivity in a synthetically versatile aryl C-H olefination. Science 2010;327:315–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hunt-Ahmed K. Contemporary Islamic Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Asano T, editor. Algorithms and Computation: 17th International Symposium, ISAAC 2006, Kolkata, India, December 18-20, 2006. Proceedings. vol. 4288. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Timotheou S, Panayiotou CG, Polycarpou MM. Transportation Systems: Monitoring, Control, and Security. In: Kyriakides E, Polycarpou M, editors. Intelligent Monitoring, Control, and Security of Critical Infrastructure Systems, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 125–66.

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]

O`Callaghan J. NASA’s New Images Of Titan Remind Us Why This Moon Of Saturn Is So Frickin’ Cool. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-new-images-of-titan-remind-us-why-its-so-frickin-cool/ (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. Information Technology: DOD Needs to Leverage Lessons Learned from Its Outsourcing Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Little K. Using Ancient and Modern Fishes to Track Environmental Change in the Illinois River. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 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]

Neuman W. Killing of 10 Soldiers Deals a Setback to Colombian Peace Talks. New York Times 2015:A6.

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