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

Bilham R. A flying start, then a slow slip. Science. 2005;308(5725):1126-1127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baumann P, Cech TR. Pot1, the putative telomere end-binding protein in fission yeast and humans. Science. 2001;292(5519):1171-1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qian L, Winfree E, Bruck J. Neural network computation with DNA strand displacement cascades. Nature. 2011;475(7356):368-372.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hu J, Wu F, Wu S, Lam CL, Lin X, Wong MH. Biochar and Glomus caledonium influence Cd accumulation of upland kangkong (Ipomoea aquatica Forsk.) intercropped with Alfred stonecrop (Sedum alfredii Hance). Sci Rep. 2014;4:4671.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Myatt GJ, Johnson WP. Making Sense of Data III. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Stella VJ, Borchardt RT, Hageman MJ, Oliyai R, Maag H, Tilley JW, eds. Prodrugs: Challenges and Rewards Part 1. Vol V. Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Datta I, Majumdar D, Ganapathy K, Bhonde RR. Stem Cells and Neuronal Differentiation. In: Somasundaram I, ed. Stem Cell Therapy for Organ Failure. Springer India; 2014:71-101.

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

Andrews R. Bill Gates Tells IFLScience How He Plans To Save The World In An Exclusive Interview. IFLScience. Published November 23, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/bill-gates-tells-iflscience-how-he-plans-to-save-the-world-in-an-exclusive-interview/

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. Biotechnology: Information on Prices of Genetically Modified Seeds in the United States and Argentina. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tom DM. Impact on Achievement with ST Math after School Instruction. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Kelly D. It’s 8 O’Clock. Time for the Penguin to Explode. New York Times. December 7, 2003:742.

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