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

Knight PL. Physics. The observation of matter wave fluctuations. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2005; 310: 631.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koos E, Willenbacher N. Capillary forces in suspension rheology. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2011; 331: 897.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schwarz G, Mendel RR, Ribbe MW. Molybdenum cofactors, enzymes and pathways. Nature 2009; 460: 839.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Rucci M, Iovin R, Poletti M, Santini F. Miniature eye movements enhance fine spatial detail. Nature 2007; 447: 851.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allman K, Nogales XED. Impact Investment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Demchenko AP, editor. Introduction to Fluorescence Sensing. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Hansen MR, Kristensen JT. Experiences with Functional Programming in an Introductory Curriculum. In: Bennedsen J, Caspersen ME, Kölling M, eds. Reflections on the Teaching of Programming: Methods and Implementations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008: 30.

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

O`Callaghan J. NASA Releases Kepler Data On The Exciting TRAPPIST-1 System [Internet]. IFLScience2017; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-releases-kepler-data-on-the-exciting-trappist1-system/

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. Comments From The Copyright Office On GAO-10-428R (GAO-10-707SP), an E-supplement to GAO-10-428R. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marcheschi RL. Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding individuals with epilepsy by marriage and family therapists and social workers. 2010;

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

Wasik JF. Death Is Inevitable. Financial Turmoil Afterward Isn’t. New York Times2017; : B3.

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