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

Hartmann WK. The paradigm and the pendulum. Nature 2000; 404: 817.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnston M, Stormo GD. Evolution. Heirlooms in the attic. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2003; 302: 997.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naundorf B, Wolf F, Volgushev M. Unique features of action potential initiation in cortical neurons. Nature 2006; 440: 1060.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Baumann CA, Ribon V, Kanzaki M et al. CAP defines a second signalling pathway required for insulin-stimulated glucose transport. Nature 2000; 407: 202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zonnenshain A, Stauber S. Managing and Engineering Complex Technological Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Kusuoka S, Maruyama T, editors. Advances in Mathematical Economics. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Asakawa Y, Ludwiczuk A, Nagashima F. Chemical Constituents of Bryophyta. In: Ludwiczuk A, Nagashima F, eds. Chemical Constituents of Bryophytes: Bio- and Chemical Diversity, Biological Activity, and Chemosystematics. Vienna: Springer, 2013: 563.

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

Carpineti A. Meteorite Simulations Hint At Water-Rich Mars [Internet]. IFLScience2017; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteorite-simulations-hint-at-waterrich-mars/

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. Student Financial Aid: Use of Middleware for Systems Integration Holds Promise. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roan R. Depth and Digital in Conversation: Practicing Marriage and Family Therapy Directly With Video Game Avatars. 2017;

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

Cooper M. Putting the Passion of Opera Behind Bars. New York Times2017; : C7.

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