How to format your references using the Vox Sanguinis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vox Sanguinis. 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

de Jong T. Computer simulations. Technological advances in inquiry learning. Science. 2006;312:532–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atkins JF, Gesteland RF. mRNA readout at 40. Nature. 2001;414:693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Muraoka T, Kinbara K, Aida T. Mechanical twisting of a guest by a photoresponsive host. Nature. 2006;440:512–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rast JP, Smith LC, Loza-Coll M, Hibino T, Litman GW. Genomic insights into the immune system of the sea urchin. Science. 2006;314:952–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henderson GR. Six Sigma Quality Improvement with Minitab. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Sampaio P, Saraiva P, editors. Quality in the 21st Century: Perspectives from ASQ Feigenbaum Medal Winners. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Masri R, Keller A. Chronic Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury. In: Jandial R, Chen MY, editors. Regenerative Biology of the Spine and Spinal Cord. New York, NY: Springer; 2012: p. 74–88.

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 Vox Sanguinis.

Blog post

Andrew E. Here’s How We Can Save The Car – And The Planet At The Same Time. IFLScience. 2015. Cited 2018 Oct 30. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/here-s-how-we-can-save-car-and-planet-same-time/.

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. The Challenge of Career Adaptation and Renewal. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Poyaoan-Linzaga MR. The effects of patient communication in early intervention for falls among the Medicare patients. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Dynarski S. Where Charter Schools Outperform. New York Times. 2015;: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	Vox Sanguinis
Abbreviation	Vox Sang.
ISSN (print)	0042-9007
ISSN (online)	1423-0410
Scope	General Medicine Hematology