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

Cane DE. Biochemistry: favouring the unfavoured. Nature 2012; 483: 285.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long MA, Fee MS. Using temperature to analyse temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathway. Nature 2008; 456: 189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilkinson JJ, Simmons SF, Stoffell B. How metalliferous brines line Mexican epithermal veins with silver. Scientific reports 2013; 3: 2057.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Lummis SCR, Beene DL, Lee LW, Lester HA, Broadhurst RW, Dougherty DA. Cis-trans isomerization at a proline opens the pore of a neurotransmitter-gated ion channel. Nature 2005; 438: 248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robbins NB. Creating More Effective Graphs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004.

An edited book

Shah K, Lakshmi Gorty VR, Phirke A, editors. Technology Systems and Management: First International Conference, ICTSM 2011, Mumbai, India, February 25-27, 2011. Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Aujogue J-B, Barge M, Kellendonk J, Lenz D. Equicontinuous Factors, Proximality and Ellis Semigroup for Delone Sets. In: Kellendonk J, Lenz D, Savinien J, eds. Mathematics of Aperiodic Order. Basel: Springer, 2015: 137.

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

Andrew E. Slowing Down The Development Of Alzheimer’s Plaques [Internet]. IFLScience2014; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/slowing-down-development-alzheimers-plaques/

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. Air Traffic Control: Role of FAA’s Modernization Program in Reducing Delays and Congestion. 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

Davidson JM. Transitional age youth—a program expansion to enhance existing services in Sonoma County: A grant-writing project. 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

Dominus I by S. ‘My Moves Speak for Themselves.’ New York Times2014; : MM10.

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

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