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

Hassan M. Beijing 1987: China’s coming-out party. Nature. 2008 Oct 2;455(7213):598–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Makino S, Suzuki M. Bacterial genomic reorganization upon DNA replication. Science. 2001 May 4;292(5518):803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Young KV, Brodie ED Jr, Brodie ED 3rd. How the horned lizard got its horns. Science. 2004 Apr 2;304(5667):65.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Meijers R, Puettmann-Holgado R, Skiniotis G, Liu JH, Walz T, Wang JH, et al. Structural basis of Dscam isoform specificity. Nature. 2007 Sep 27;449(7161):487–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brigo D, Morini M, Pallavicini A. Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Thompson SG, Ghanea-Hercock R, editors. Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems: International Workshop, DAMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Revised and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. XII, 142 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3890).

A chapter in an edited book

Rodríguez-Sánchez AJ, Piater J. Models of the Visual Cortex for Object Representation: Learning and Wired Approaches. In: Grandinetti L, Lippert T, Petkov N, editors. Brain-Inspired Computing: International Workshop, BrainComp 2013, Cetraro, Italy, July 8-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 51–62. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Andrews R. New Satellite Returns First Remarkable Image Of The Arctic. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Army’s FY 1980 Programs for Procuring Conventional Ammunition, Modernization, and Expansion. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Jun. Report No.: LCD-79-416.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Salam S. Interplay between Fines Content and Strength Characteristics of CA 6 and CA 2 Crushed Limestone Aggregate [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

Wagner J. Mets Fix Duda’s Swing, With Help From an Angel. New York Times. 2017 Jun 8;B15.

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