How to format your references using the Transfusion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transfusion. 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

Weintraub K. Vaccines: taking a shot at protection. Nature. 2014 Dec 4;516(7529):S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mochida S, Hunt T. Calcineurin is required to release Xenopus egg extracts from meiotic M phase. Nature. 2007 Sep 20;449(7160):336–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Balco G, Rovey CW 2nd, Stone JOH. The first glacial maximum in North America. Science. 2005 Jan 14;307(5707):222.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Martin KH, Slack JK, Boerner SA, Martin CC, Parsons JT. Integrin connections map: to infinity and beyond. Science. 2002 May 31;296(5573):1652–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stamp M. Information Security. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Modgil S, Oren N, Toni F, editors. Theorie and Applications of Formal Argumentation: First International Workshop, TAFA 2011. Barcelona, Spain, July 16-17, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. X, 281 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7132).

A chapter in an edited book

Kruse T, Sun EW. News Trader, Liquidity and Transaction Cost. In: Dufrénot G, Jawadi F, Louhichi W, editors. Market Microstructure and Nonlinear Dynamics: Keeping Financial Crisis in Context. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 95–127.

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 Transfusion.

Blog post

Fang J. New Layer of Rock Discovered in Earth’s Mantle. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Schedule Delays and Cost Overruns Plague DOD Automated Information Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 May. Report No.: T-IMTEC-89-8.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Graber ME. Best practices in enhancement deals: Nonprofit and for profit theatrical collaborations [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Eligon J. Praise For Victim Prompts A Debate. New York Times. 2017 May 2;A11.

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	Transfusion
Abbreviation	Transfusion
ISSN (print)	0041-1132
ISSN (online)	1537-2995
Scope	Immunology Hematology Immunology and Allergy