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

Bystricky M. Geophysics. Mantle flow revisited. Science. 2003;301(5637):1190-1191.

A journal article with 2 authors

Landskron K, Ozin GA. Periodic mesoporous dendrisilicas. Science. 2004;306(5701):1529-1532.

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Engh G, Nelson P, Roach J. Numismatic gyrations. Nature. 2000;408(6812):540.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Frappier A, Sahagian D, González LA, Carpenter SJ. El Niño events recorded by stalagmite carbon isotopes. Science. 2002;298(5593):565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Basener WF. Topology and Its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Asher J, Banks D, Scheuren FJ, eds. Statistical Methods for Human Rights. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Medina MJ. Pandemic Influenza Planning for the Mental Health Security of Survivors of Mass Deaths. In: Masys AJ, ed. Exploring the Security Landscape: Non-Traditional Security Challenges. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer International Publishing; 2016:79-100.

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. Japanese Laboratory Fires World’s Most Powerful Laser. IFLScience. July 30, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-most-powerful-laser/

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. Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 5. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Neilson DH. Structured Interactions and Collective Outcomes Essays on Production and Finance. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University; 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

Feinblatt J. Ban the Open Carry of Firearms. New York Times. August 17, 2017:A25.

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