How to format your references using the Vox Sanguinis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vox Sanguinis. 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

Katz DL. Perspective: Obesity is not a disease. Nature. 2014;508:S57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jensen LJ, Bork P. Biochemistry. Not comparable, but complementary. Science. 2008;322:56–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petersen-Mahrt SK, Harris RS, Neuberger MS. AID mutates E. coli suggesting a DNA deamination mechanism for antibody diversification. Nature. 2002;418:99–103.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Piotrowski AM, Goldstein SL, Hemming SR, Fairbanks RG. Temporal relationships of carbon cycling and ocean circulation at glacial boundaries. Science. 2005;307:1933–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gage LJ. Hand-Rearing Wild and Domestic Mammals. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Chan JH, Ong Y-S, Cho S-B, editors. Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics: First International Conference, CSBio 2010, Bangkok, Thailand, November 3-5, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu S, Yang G, Xu J, Li X. SCH-EGA: An Efficient Hybrid Algorithm for the Frequency Assignment Problem. In: Iliadis L, Papadopoulos H, Jayne C, editors. Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 14th International Conference, EANN 2013, Halkidiki, Greece, September 13-16, 2013 Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013: p. 32–41.

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 Vox Sanguinis.

Blog post

Andrew E. World’s First Solar Cycle Path Is Performing Better Than Anticipated. IFLScience. 2015. Cited 2018 Oct 30. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-first-solar-cycle-path-surprisingly-successful/.

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. Transition Series: NASA Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ladd RJ. A Study of Alternative Education Programs in the State of Missouri. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University; 2014.

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

Murphy MJO. The Pokemon Go of the 1930s: Excuse Me, I Need to Find a Monkey and Head to the Waldorf. New York Times. 2016;:C23.

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	Vox Sanguinis
Abbreviation	Vox Sang.
ISSN (print)	0042-9007
ISSN (online)	1423-0410
Scope	General Medicine Hematology