How to format your references using the Blood Reviews citation style

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

[1]

Forró L. NANOTECHNOLOGY: Beyond Gedanken Experiments. Science 2000;289:560–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sergienko OV, Hindmarsh RCA. Regular patterns in frictional resistance of ice-stream beds seen by surface data inversion. Science 2013;342:1086–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bragg AE, Cavanagh MC, Schwartz BJ. Linear response breakdown in solvation dynamics induced by atomic electron-transfer reactions. Science 2008;321:1817–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cardinal RN, Pennicott DR, Sugathapala CL, Robbins TW, Everitt BJ. Impulsive choice induced in rats by lesions of the nucleus accumbens core. Science 2001;292:2499–501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pommier S, Gravouil A, Combescure A, Moës N. Extended Finite Element Method for Crack Propagation. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Rajamannan NM, editor. Cardiac Valvular Medicine. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cosottini M. Vasi arteriosi. In: Cosottini M, editor. Anatomia RM dell’encefalo, Milano: Springer; 2012, p. 91–6.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. New Estimate Suggests 100 Million Planets In Our Galaxy Capable Of Sustaining Complex Life. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-estimate-suggests-100-million-planets-our-capable-sustaining-complex-life/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Implementation of Public Law 94-142 as It Relates to Handicapped Delinquents in the District of Columbia. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Barkis B. How Do Highly Engaged Employees and Managers Find Meaning in Their Work? Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine 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

[1]

Brantley B. Hear a Song, Pick a Side. New York Times 2017:C1.

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	Blood Reviews
Abbreviation	Blood Rev.
ISSN (print)	0268-960X
Scope	Hematology Oncology