How to format your references using the Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy. 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

Rando TA. Stem cells, ageing and the quest for immortality. Nature. 2006 Jun;441(7097):1080–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Headlam D, Brown M. Comment on “The geometry of musical chords.” Science. 2007 Jan;315(5810):330; author reply 330.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spracklen DV, Arnold SR, Taylor CM. Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests. Nature. 2012 Sep;489(7415):282–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lau NC, Seto AG, Kim J, Kuramochi-Miyagawa S, Nakano T, Bartel DP, et al. Characterization of the piRNA complex from rat testes. Science. 2006 Jul;313(5785):363–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gupta SK. Modern Hydrology and Sustainable Water Development. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Couture A. Gastrointestinal Tract Sonography in Fetuses and Children. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee Y, Kang W, Lee Y. A Hadoop-Based Packet Trace Processing Tool. In: Domingo-Pascual J, Shavitt Y, Uhlig S, editors. Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: Third International Workshop, TMA 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 27, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011; pp 51–63.

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 Medicine and Hemotherapy.

Blog post

Hale T. Ex-NASA Engineer Joins Uber To Develop Flying Car [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Feb

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

Government Accountability Office. Screening Partnership Program: TSA Can Benefit from Improved Cost Estimates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Laskey E. Plasma glucagon during development of insulin resistance among healthy individuals. 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

Gordon MR, Erdbrink T. U.S. Shoots Down Syrian Warplane; Iran Launches Missiles Into Syria. New York Times. 2017 Jun;A10.

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 Medicine and Hemotherapy
Abbreviation	Transfus. Med. Hemother.
ISSN (print)	1660-3796
ISSN (online)	1660-3818
Scope	Hematology Immunology and Allergy