How to format your references using the Transfusion Medicine Reviews citation style

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

[1]

Pochan DJ. Materials science. Approaching asymmetry and versatility in polymer assembly. Science 2012;337:530–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cushing MC, Anseth KS. Materials science. Hydrogel cell cultures. Science 2007;316:1133–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thürmer K, Williams E, Reutt-Robey J. Autocatalytic oxidation of lead crystallite surfaces. Science 2002;297:2033–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lingel A, Simon B, Izaurralde E, Sattler M. Structure and nucleic-acid binding of the Drosophila Argonaute 2 PAZ domain. Nature 2003;426:465–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA). Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Pokorski M, editor. Respirology. vol. 885. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Boccara C, Carminati R. Near-Field Optics: From Experiment to Theory. In: Dupas C, Houdy P, Lahmani M, editors. Nanoscience: Nanotechnologies and Nanophysics, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 121–56.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. NASA Plans To Send People To Mars By 2035. IFLScience 2014.

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. Joint Strike Fighter: Restructuring Places Program on Firmer Footing, but Progress Is Still Lagging. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wickramage AS. Analysis of Magnaporthe oryzae homologs of Histoplasma capsulatum RYP genes. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 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]

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Campaign Memo; Democrat’s Road Tour: Selling the Ticket Retail. New York Times 1992:A14.

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Transfus. Med. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0887-7963
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Biochemistry, medical Hematology

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