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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European 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

Bowles S. Group competition, reproductive leveling, and the evolution of human altruism. Science. 2006 Dec 8;314(5805):1569–72.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leeman DS, Brunet A. Stem cells: Sex specificity in the blood. Nature. 2014 Jan 23;505(7484):488–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pulendran B, Palucka K, Banchereau J. Sensing pathogens and tuning immune responses. Science. 2001 Jul 13;293(5528):253–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Matsuura K, Vargo EL, Kawatsu K, Labadie PE, Nakano H, Yashiro T, et al. Queen succession through asexual reproduction in termites. Science. 2009 Mar 27;323(5922):1687.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Siebert G, Maniatis I. Tragende Bauteile aus Glas. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Mackenzie JS, Jeggo M, Daszak P, Richt JA, editors. One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Concept and Examples of a One Health Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. X, 362 p. 25 illus., 10 illus. in color. (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology; vol. 365).

A chapter in an edited book

Knopp T, Buzug TM. From Data to Images: Reconstruction. In: Buzug TM, editor. Magnetic Particle Imaging: An Introduction to Imaging Principles and Scanner Instrumentation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 127–48.

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 European Journal of Haematology.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015. Read Roald Dahl’s Heartbreaking Letter Urging Parents To Vaccinate.

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. Implementation of the Beach Act of 2000: EPA and States Have Made Progress, but Additional Actions Could Improve Public Health Protection. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Jun. Report No.: GAO-07-1043T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sylvain O. Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927 [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 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

Longman J. Formula for Upset: Arithmetic Trumps Art. New York Times. 2014 Feb 21;B14.

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	European Journal of Haematology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Haematol.
ISSN (print)	0902-4441
ISSN (online)	1600-0609
Scope	General Medicine Hematology