How to format your references using the Transplantation citation style

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

Trkola A. HIV: Potency needs constancy. Nature 2014; 514: 442.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fukuchi-Shimogori T, Grove EA. Neocortex patterning by the secreted signaling molecule FGF8. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2001; 294: 1071.

A journal article with 3 authors

Elion EA, Qi M, Chen W. Signal transduction. Signaling specificity in yeast. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2005; 307: 687.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Achard F, Eva HD, Stibig H-J et al. Determination of deforestation rates of the world’s humid tropical forests. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2002; 297: 999.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gutiérrez Í, Meléndez J, Hernández E. Design and Characterization of Integrated Varactors for RF Applications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2007.

An edited book

Rojas I, Joya G, Catala A, editors. Advances in Computational Intelligence: 13th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2015, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 10-12, 2015. Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuhn W. Semantic Engineering. In: Navratil G, ed. Research Trends in Geographic Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009: 63.

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 Transplantation.

Blog post

Davis J. Chimps Found Drinking Booze In The Wild [Internet]. IFLScience2015; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-found-boozing-wild/

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. Combined Fund Update. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tucker T. Psychoeducational support groups for postadoptive parents: A grant-writing project. 2014;

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

Mazzetti M. New Law Shifts Fight on Claims for 9/11 Victims. New York Times2016; : A1.

In-text citations

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

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	Transplantation
Abbreviation	Transplantation
ISSN (print)	0041-1337
ISSN (online)	1534-0608
Scope	Transplantation