How to format your references using the Acta Haematologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Haematologica. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kleypas J. Oceans. Invisible barriers to dispersal. Science. 2015 Jun;348(6239):1086–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cassidy LD, Narita M. CELL BIOLOGY. GATA get a hold on senescence. Science. 2015 Sep;349(6255):1448–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansen LN, Zimmerman ME, Kohlstedt DL. Laboratory measurements of the viscous anisotropy of olivine aggregates. Nature. 2012 Dec;492(7429):415–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Melosh NA, Boukai A, Diana F, Gerardot B, Badolato A, Petroff PM, et al. Ultrahigh-density nanowire lattices and circuits. Science. 2003 Apr;300(5616):112–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kenett RS, Zacks S, Amberti D. Modern Industrial Statistics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Mutsvairo B, editor. Digital Activism in the Social Media Era: Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Aiyer AS, Alvisi L, Bazzi RA. Bounded Wait-Free Implementation of Optimally Resilient Byzantine Storage Without (Unproven) Cryptographic Assumptions. In: Pelc A, editor. Distributed Computing: 21st International Symposium, DISC 2007, Lemesos, Cyprus, September 24-26, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007; pp 7–19.

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 Acta Haematologica.

Blog post

Luntz S. Parrots Lose in the War of the Adorables [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parrots-lose-war-adorables/

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. Computer Security: FAA Is Addressing Personnel Weaknesses, But Further Action Is Required. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thirumal VM. Production of Microbial Lipids from Lipomyces starkeyi. 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

Strasser S. What’s in Your Microwave Oven? New York Times. 2017 Apr;A19.

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	Acta Haematologica
Abbreviation	Acta Haematol.
ISSN (print)	0001-5792
ISSN (online)	1421-9662
Scope	General Medicine Hematology