How to format your references using the Transfusion Medicine Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transfusion Medicine 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]

Burgess D. Taking on that first faculty job. Nature 2007;447:1142.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dalton R, Cyranoski D. Baja peninsula claims five victims in tragic accident. Nature 2000;404:533.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Field J, Cronin A, Bridge C. Future fitness and helping in social queues. Nature 2006;441:214–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hermosura MC, Takeuchi H, Fleig A, Riley AM, Potter BV, Hirata M, et al. InsP4 facilitates store-operated calcium influx by inhibition of InsP3 5-phosphatase. Nature 2000;408:735–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Parker D. Global Real Estate Investment Trusts. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Gladyshev P, Rogers MK, editors. Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime: Third International ICST Conference, ICDF2C 2011, Dublin, Ireland, October 26-28, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 88. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Corrin L, Bennett S, Lockyer L. Digital Natives: Exploring the Diversity of Young People’s Experience with Technology. In: Huang R, Kinshuk, Spector JM, editors. Reshaping Learning: Frontiers of Learning Technology in a Global Context, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 113–38.

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 Transfusion Medicine Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Oceans Warming 15 Times Faster Than The Last 10,000 Years. IFLScience 2013.

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. Supply Management in the District of Columbia Public Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Weisblatt BH. The numinous on Russian soil: A depth psychological interpretation of religious experience in “The Brothers Karamazov.” Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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

[1]

Corkery M, Cowley S. For Better or Worse, Debt Reaches New Peak. New York Times 2017:B1.

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	Transfusion Medicine Reviews
Abbreviation	Transfus. Med. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0887-7963
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Biochemistry, medical Hematology