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

Witten E. Quantum mechanics of black holes. Science. 2012 Aug 3;337(6094):538–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Royer S, Paré D. Conservation of total synaptic weight through balanced synaptic depression and potentiation. Nature. 2003 Apr 3;422(6931):518–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsu M, Anen C, Quartz SR. The right and the good: distributive justice and neural encoding of equity and efficiency. Science. 2008 May 23;320(5879):1092–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rothman JS, Cathala L, Steuber V, Silver RA. Synaptic depression enables neuronal gain control. Nature. 2009 Feb 19;457(7232):1015–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Milne D. The Psychology of Retirement. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

Müller MS, Resch MM, Schulz A, Nagel WE, editors. Tools for High Performance Computing 2009: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing, September 2009, ZIH, Dresden. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XIV, 184 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Aaen I. Roles in Innovative Software Teams: A Design Experiment. In: Pries-Heje J, Venable J, Bunker D, Russo NL, DeGross JI, editors. Human Benefit through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research: IFIP WG 82/86 International Working Conference, Perth, Australia, March 30 – April 1, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 73–88. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology).

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. Promising Rabies Treatment Cures Mice After Symptoms Appear [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/promising-rabies-treatment-cures-mice-after-symptoms-appear/

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. Mass Transit Grants: UMTA Needs to Increase Safety Focus at Local Transit Authority. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Dec. Report No.: RCED-90-41.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bogenreif C. Rachmaninoff’s Sonata For Cello and Piano: A Staple in the Cello and Piano Repertoire [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Dinardo K. Jim Gaffigan, on Traveling With Young Children. New York Times. 2015 Dec 6;TR3.

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