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

Fuks F. Journal club. A cancer biologist marvels at how key gene regulators are still revealing hidden talents. Nature. 2010;466(7305):417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim E, Chan MHW. Observation of superflow in solid helium. Science. 2004;305(5692):1941-1944.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maertens GN, Hare S, Cherepanov P. The mechanism of retroviral integration from X-ray structures of its key intermediates. Nature. 2010;468(7321):326-329.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ridderinkhof KR, Ullsperger M, Crone EA, Nieuwenhuis S. The role of the medial frontal cortex in cognitive control. Science. 2004;306(5695):443-447.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burkinshaw SM. Physico-Chemical Aspects of Textile Coloration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Lockley P, ed. Protestant Communalism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1650–1850. Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Ohnishi A. Common Criteria Based Security Scenario Verification. In: Cordeiro J, Shishkov B, Ranchordas A, Helfert M, eds. Software and Data Technologies: Third International Conference, ICSOFT 2008, Porto, Portugal, July 22-24, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer; 2009:37-47.

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

Andrew E. Five Science ‘Facts’ We Learnt At School That Are Plain Wrong. IFLScience. October 29, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-science-facts-we-learnt-school-are-plain-wrong/

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. Review of the Office of Education’s Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kaardal JT. Decoding the Computations of Sensory Neurons. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego; 2017.

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

CHRISTOPHER KELLY; Christopher Kelly is a fellow in ancient history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Paganism Was Alive and Well. New York Times. September 23, 1990:743.

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