How to format your references using the Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports. 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

1. Zwane AP. Economics. Implications of scarcity. Science. 2012;338:617–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Apps R, Carrington M. Response to Comment on “Influence of HLA-C expression level on HIV control.” Science. 2013;341:1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Xu X, Zhou Z, Prum RO. Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers. Nature. 2001;410:200–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lei D, Ma J, Du X, Shen G, Jin X, Gong Q. Microstructural abnormalities in the combined and inattentive subtypes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6875.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Olofsson P. Probabilities. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

1. Yamamoto S, editor. Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction Design: 15th International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gryglewicz-Kacerka W, Kacerka J. Analysis of the Effect of Chosen Initialization Parameters on Database Performance. In: Kozielski S, Mrozek D, Kasprowski P, Małysiak-Mrozek B, Kostrzewa D, editors. Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures: 11th International Conference, BDAS 2015, Ustroń, Poland, May 26-29, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 60–8.

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 Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Most Mammals Killed In Dinosaur Extinction [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/most-mammals-killed-dinosaur-extinction/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. The Guaranteed Student Loan Information System Needs a Thorough Redesign To Account for the Expenditure of Billions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981 Sep. Report No.: HRD-81-139.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zhao X. Exfoliation Corrosion Kinetics of High Strength Aluminum Alloys [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2006.

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. Gant K. Quotation of the Day. New York Times. 2011 Feb 27;A3.

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	Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Hematol. Malig. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1558-8211
ISSN (online)	1558-822X
Scope	Cancer Research Hematology Oncology