How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Transplantation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Transplantation. 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 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

Chin JW. Molecular biology. Reprogramming the genetic code. Science. 2012;336(6080):428-429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mascie-Taylor CGN, Karim E. The burden of chronic disease. Science. 2003;302(5652):1921-1922.

A journal article with 3 authors

Glaser A, Barak B, Goldston RJ. A zero-knowledge protocol for nuclear warhead verification. Nature. 2014;510(7506):497-502.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kaneda M, Okano M, Hata K, et al. Essential role for de novo DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a in paternal and maternal imprinting. Nature. 2004;429(6994):900-903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taha AEM, Hassanein HS, Ali NA. LTE, LTE-Advanced and WiMAX. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Griffin DE, Oldstone MBA, eds. Measles: Pathogenesis and Control. Vol 330. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Salviano CF, Alves AM, Stefanuto GN, Maintinguer ST, Mattos CV, Zeitoum C. CERTICS - An ISO/IEC 15504 Conformance Model for Software Technological Development and Innovation. In: Mitasiunas A, Rout T, O’Connor RV, Dorling A, eds. Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination: 14th International Conference, SPICE 2014, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 4-6, 2014, Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing; 2014:48-59.

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 Indian Journal of Transplantation.

Blog post

Davis J. How Do Cats Always Manage To Land On Their Feet? IFLScience.

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. Space Based Infrared System High Program and Its Alternative. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia RI. Variable Selection for Models with Missing Data. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina; 2009.

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

Walsh MW. Cracks Starting to Appear in Public Pensions’ Armor. New York Times. February 26, 2015:B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Indian Journal of Transplantation
ISSN (print)	2212-0017
Scope