How to format your references using the Bone Marrow Transplantation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bone Marrow Transplantation. 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

Wickware P. Postdocs reject academic research. Nature 2000; 407: 429–430.

A journal article with 2 authors

Solozhenko VL, Kurakevych OO. Equilibrium p-T phase diagram of boron: experimental study and thermodynamic analysis. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 2351.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshino T, Walter MJ, Katsura T. Core formation in planetesimals triggered by permeable flow. Nature 2003; 422: 154–157.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kaitsuka T, Katagiri C, Beesetty P, Nakamura K, Hourani S, Tomizawa K et al. Inactivation of TRPM7 kinase activity does not impair its channel function in mice. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 5718.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartmann AK, Weigt M. Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Zhang X-P. Flexible AC Transmission Systems: Modelling and Control. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Ren W, Song J, Ma Z, Huang S. Towards a Bio-inspired Security Framework for Mission-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Cai Z, Li Z, Kang Z, Liu Y (eds). Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems: 4th International Symposium, ISICA 2009, Huangshi, China, October 23-25, 2009. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, pp 35–44.

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 Bone Marrow Transplantation.

Blog post

Davis J. Some Male Fiddler Crabs Trap Females In Order To Mate With Them. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/some-male-fiddler-crabs-trap-females-in-order-to-mate-with-them/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Aviation Infrastructure: Feasibility of Using Alternate Means to Satisfy Requirements of Alaska National Airspace System Interfacility Communications System (ANICS) Phase II. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Berbery ML. Predictors of White adoptive parents’ cultural and racial socialization behaviors with their Asian adopted children. 2010.

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

Baker L. 2 Families, and No Room for Guilt. New York Times. 2009; : C33.

In-text citations

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

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	Bone Marrow Transplantation
ISSN (online)	1476-5365
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