How to format your references using the Current Transplantation Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Transplantation 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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. Blow N. Antibodies: The generation game. Nature. 2007;447:741–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Treves A, Bruskotter J. Ecology. Tolerance for predatory wildlife. Science. 2014;344:476–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Isabel G, Pascual A, Preat T. Exclusive consolidated memory phases in Drosophila. Science. 2004;304:1024–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hayashi F, Smith KD, Ozinsky A, Hawn TR, Yi EC, Goodlett DR, et al. The innate immune response to bacterial flagellin is mediated by Toll-like receptor 5. Nature. 2001;410:1099–103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. French M, Szepesvári C, Rogers E. Performance of Nonlinear Approximate Adaptive Controllers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Mandl C. The Co-creative Meeting: Practicing Consensual Effectivity in Organizations. Hauser M, Mandl H, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gegg BC, Suh CS, Luo ACJ. Cutting Dynamics Mechanism. In: Suh CS, Luo ACJ, editors. Machine Tool Vibrations and Cutting Dynamics. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 101–21.

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 Transplantation Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Scientists Grow Miniature Brains From Skin Cells Of Autistic Patients [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/growing-miniature-brains-gives-insight-autism/

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. Academy Preparatory Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Oct. Report No.: NSIAD-94-56R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Watts KS. The Effectiveness of a Social Story Intervention in Decreasing Disruptive Behavior in Autistic Children [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2008.

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. Pennington B. Youth Sports Go Broke as Trusted Adults Steal. New York Times. 2016 Jul 7;A1.

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 Transplantation Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Transplant. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-3029
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