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]

Laxminarayan R. Antibiotic effectiveness: balancing conservation against innovation. Science 2014;345:1299–301.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jørgensen BB, D’Hondt S. Ecology. A starving majority deep beneath the seafloor. Science 2006;314:932–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhang W, Dunkle JA, Cate JHD. Structures of the ribosome in intermediate states of ratcheting. Science 2009;325:1014–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nagalakshmi U, Wang Z, Waern K, Shou C, Raha D, Gerstein M, et al. The transcriptional landscape of the yeast genome defined by RNA sequencing. Science 2008;320:1344–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schwartz R. Rethinking Pragmatism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Pontell HN, Geis G, editors. International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Grönlund Å, Susha I. A Communication Genre Perspective on e-Petitioning: The Case of the Citizens’ Initiative. In: Tambouris E, Macintosh A, Sæbø Ø, editors. Electronic Participation: 4th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2012, Kristiansand, Norway, September 3-5, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 37–48.

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]

Hamilton K. We Know Why Bacteria Become Resistant To Antibiotics, But How Does This Actually Happen? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/we-know-why-bacteria-become-resistance-toantibiotics-but-how-does-this-actually-happen/ (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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Leadership Needed to Collect and Disseminate Critical Biomedical Equipment Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gurska DP. Peering Down the Bottomless Well: Myth in Thomas Mann’s Joseph Tetralogy. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017.

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]

Shpigel B. Jets Tell Revis They Plan to Release Him. New York Times 2017:B10.

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

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