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

Carlson EW. Condensed-matter physics: Charge topology in superconductors. Nature. 2015 Sep;525(7569):329–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Salter MG, Fern R. NMDA receptors are expressed in developing oligodendrocyte processes and mediate injury. Nature. 2005 Dec;438(7071):1167–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

Perlo J, Casanova F, Blümich B. Ex situ NMR in highly homogeneous fields: 1H spectroscopy. Science. 2007 Feb;315(5815):1110–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kyutoku M, Nakagami H, Koriyama H, Nakagami F, Shimamura M, Kurinami H, et al. Inhibition of neointima formation through DNA vaccination for apolipoprotein(a): a new therapeutic strategy for lipoprotein(a). Sci Rep. 2013;3:1600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collings S. Interpretation and Application of UK GAAP. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Levitan MA. Sedimentation History in the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas for the Last 130 kyr. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Gisonni C, Hager WH. Sistemi di pompaggio e dispositivi di controllo. In: Hager WH, editor. Idraulica dei sistemi fognari: Dalla teoria alla pratica. Milano: Springer; 2012; pp 71–97.

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

Andrews R. Two-Thirds Of American Public Want Clean Energy Instead Of Fossil Fuels [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Jan [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/twothirds-american-public-clean-energy-fossil-fuels/

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. School Lunch Program: Buy American Procedures at Commodity Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wadhwa PH. Secure building automation system using Tesla protocol. 2015

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

Schulman M, White A. At Camp John Waters, a Band of ‘Filthy Freaks.’ New York Times. 2017 Oct;ST1.

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

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