How to format your references using the World Journal of Hematology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Hematology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Lyons TW. Ocean science. Ironing out ocean chemistry at the dawn of animal life. Science 2008; 321: 923–924.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kereszt A, Kondorosi E. Plant science. Unlocking the door to invasion. Science 2011; 331: 865–866.

A journal article with 3 authors

Campbell C, Shea K, Albert R. Network models. Comment on ‘Control profiles of complex networks’. Science 2014; 346: 561.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Tyagi A, Kapoor P, Kumar R, Chaudhary K, Gautam A, Raghava GPS. In silico models for designing and discovering novel anticancer peptides. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 2984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brauer RL. Safety and Health for Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Baranauskas C, Palanque P, Abascal J, Barbosa SDJ (eds). Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007: 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Henkel M, Pleimling M. Local Scale-invariance II: z =/ 2. In: Pleimling M, editor. Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions: Volume 2: Ageing and Dynamical Scaling Far from Equilibrium. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010: 291–336.

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 World Journal of Hematology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Starving Cancer Cells Of Sugar Could Be The Key To Future Treatment. IFLScience. 2015.

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. Federal Retirement Processing: OPM Is Pursuing Incremental Information Technology Improvements after Canceling a Modernization Plagued by Management Weaknesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pundir B. Surface pressure fluctuations due to an impinging underexpanded supersonic jet. 2011.

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. Taking His Off-Season Cuts, Conforto Leaves Demotions Behind. New York Times. 2017; : B11.

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	World Journal of Hematology
ISSN (online)	2218-6204
Scope