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

Harmer MP. Materials science. The phase behavior of interfaces. Science. 2011 Apr;332(6026):182–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu C-C, Chen C-C. The symmetry detection mechanisms are color selective. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan;4:3893.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmidt-Hieber C, Jonas P, Bischofberger J. Enhanced synaptic plasticity in newly generated granule cells of the adult hippocampus. Nature. 2004 May;429(6988):184–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fujita Y, Takeshita F, Mizutani T, Ohgi T, Kuwano K, Ochiya T. A novel platform to enable inhaled naked RNAi medicine for lung cancer. Sci Rep. 2013 Nov;3:3325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beagle JR. Surgical Essentials of Immediate Implant Dentistry. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Cold GE, Juul N, editors. Monitoring of Cerebral and Spinal Haemodynamics During Neurosurgery. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Elia A, Viola F, Roffia L, Cinotti TS. A Multi-Broker Platform for the Internet of Things. In: Balandin S, Andreev S, Koucheryavy Y, editors. Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networks and Systems: 15th International Conference, NEW2AN 2015, and 8th Conference, ruSMART 2015, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 26-28, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 34–46.

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. What Would Happen If A Nuclear Bomb Was Dropped On A City? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Jan

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. Surface Transportation: Tight Budget Environment Requires Sound Investment Strategy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Saguilig LG. A Clinical Decision Support System for the Prevention of Genetic-Related Heart Disease. 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

Cowen T. Affordable, but Not That Egalitarian. New York Times. 2015 Nov;BU6.

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