How to format your references using the Blood Cancer Discovery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Blood Cancer Discovery. 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 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

Socha JJ. Applied Physics. Of snakes and robots. Science. 2014;346:160–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maechler P, Wollheim CB. Mitochondrial function in normal and diabetic beta-cells. Nature. 2001;414:807–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

Righton D, Metcalfe J, Connolly P. Fisheries. Different behaviour of North and Irish Sea cod. Nature. 2001;411:156.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Beck MR, Morgan EA, Strand SS, Woolsey TA. Mentoring. Volunteers bring passion to science outreach. Science. 2006;314:1246–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xiu L. Nanometer Frequency Synthesis Beyond the Phase-Locked Loop. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Shirali S. Multivariable Analysis. Vasudeva HL, editor. London: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Holweg M, Bicheno J. The Reverse Amplification Effect in Supply Chains. In: Pawar KS, Rogers H, Potter A, Naim M, editors. Developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Past, Present and Future. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. page 52–8.

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 Blood Cancer Discovery.

Blog post

Andrew E. Bird Flu Is Back, But Should We Be Worried? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bird-flu-back-should-we-be-worried/

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. Technology Transfer: Several Factors Have Led to a Decline in Partnerships at DOE’s Laboratories. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Apr. Report No.: GAO-02-465.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Muniyappa VK. Performance analysis of IPv4 versus IPv6 in a simple campus network [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Barron J. Keeping Historic, but Expensive, Fixer-Uppers Affordable. New York Times. 2017;A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Blood Cancer Discovery
ISSN (print)	2643-3230
ISSN (online)	2643-3249
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