How to format your references using the British Journal of Haematology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Haematology. 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

Oullier, O. (2012) Clear up this fuzzy thinking on brain scans. Nature, 483, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, M.W. & Baran, P.S. (2015) ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. As simple as [2+2]. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349, 925–926.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gitlin, A.D., Shulman, Z. & Nussenzweig, M.C. (2014) Clonal selection in the germinal centre by regulated proliferation and hypermutation. Nature, 509, 637–640.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zou, L.-N., Cheng, X., Rivers, M.L., Jaeger, H.M. & Nagel, S.R. (2009) The packing of granular polymer chains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326, 408–410.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sadati, N., Dumont, G.A., Hamed, K.A. & Gruver, W.A. (2012)Hybrid Control and Motion Planning of Dynamical Legged Locomotion Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fischer, X. (2011)Research in Interactive Design Vol. 3: Virtual, Interactive and Integrated Product Design and Manufacturing for Industrial Innovation Nadeau J-P (ed) Paris: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gor’kov, L.P. (2008)Theory of Superconducting Alloys. In Superconductivity: Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors, Bennemann KH & Ketterson JB (eds) pp 201–224. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 British Journal of Haematology.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2017) Tarantulas Are Right-Handed, Study Suggests. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tarantulas-right-handed/ [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

Government Accountability Office (1994)NASA Property: Poor Lending Practices and Controls at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 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

Litt, D. (2010) Social networking sites and adolescent alcohol use: The role of social images, social norms, and social comparison.

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

Markoff, J. (2016) Trump Won Battle of Ranting, Raving Twitter Robots, Researchers Say. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Oullier, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Oullier, 2012; Smith & Baran, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Smith & Baran, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zou et al, 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Haematology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Haematol.
ISSN (print)	0007-1048
ISSN (online)	1365-2141
Scope	Hematology