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. Pasquale EB. Journal club. A biologist is gratified to find reconciliation for a conflicted receptor. Nature. 2009;461:149.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Glimcher PW, Rustichini A. Neuroeconomics: the consilience of brain and decision. Science. 2004;306:447–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Topper TP, Holmer LE, Caron J-B. Brachiopods hitching a ride: an early case of commensalism in the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6704.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Guo D-Y, Shan C-X, Qu S-N, Shen D-Z. Highly sensitive ultraviolet photodetectors fabricated from ZnO quantum dots/carbon nanodots hybrid films. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Du D-Z, Ko K-I. Theory of Computational Complexity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Gerndt M, Kranzlmüller D, editors. High Performance Computing and Communications: Second International Conference, HPCC 2006, Munich, Germany, September 13-15, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Alwi H, Edwards C, Tan CP. Robust Fault Reconstruction using Observers in Cascade. In: Edwards C, Pin Tan C, editors. Fault Detection and Fault-Tolerant Control Using Sliding Modes. London: Springer; 2011. p. 99–127.

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. Hale T. How To Check If You’ve Been Hacked Within Seconds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-check-if-youve-been-hacked-within-seconds/

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. [Comments on Cincinnati Airport Bond Issue]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jun. Report No.: B-247969.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Holloway CM. Evaluating five leadership traits in the rising stars succession planning program [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2015.

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. Boucher B. Between Fable and Fact. New York Times. 2017 Sep 8;BR9.

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
Scope