Example of citation of Primary Article

Genotype–phenotype correlation in children with hereditary spherocytosis is a primary research article that discusses the findings of data collected to describe the clinical phenotype according to genotype. It is published in the British Journal of Hematology, a highly respected and peer-reviewed journal. It provides a summary of the disease and the study's purpose. The article then describes the patients and methods used in the study, and subsequently presents the results with raw data in an objective manner. The article then discusses the author's findings and potential pitfalls of their research, concluding with their raw data. The authors also include numerous visual graphs and tables to present their collected data concisely. This further provides evidence that this is a primary article.

Sections

-          Summary

-          Patients and methods

-          Results

-          Discussion

-          Author contributions

-          Conflict of interest

-          Acknowledgments

-          References

-          Work Cited

Citation

Tole, S. et al. Genotype-phenotype correlation in children with hereditary spherocytosis. Br. J. Haematol. 191, 486–496 (2020). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32436265/