How to format your references using the Transplantation Proceedings citation style

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

[1]

Wadman M. The quiet rise of the clinical contractor. Nature 2006;441:22–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sun Y-G, Chen Z-F. A gastrin-releasing peptide receptor mediates the itch sensation in the spinal cord. Nature 2007;448:700–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Miyazaki T, Sueyoshi K, Hiraga T. Olivine crystals align during diffusion creep of Earth’s upper mantle. Nature 2013;502:321–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Richter C, Wunsch M, Rasheed M, Kötter I, Badran MI. Endoscopic exploration of Red Sea coral reefs reveals dense populations of cavity-dwelling sponges. Nature 2001;413:726–30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hopkins BR. The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Gajski DD. Embedded System Design: Modeling, Synthesis and Verification. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zucker KJ. The DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria for Gender Dysphoria. In: Trombetta C, Liguori G, Bertolotto M, editors. Management of Gender Dysphoria: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Milano: Springer; 2015, p. 33–7.

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 Proceedings.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Watch Live Webcast Of Thursday’s Partial Solar Eclipse. IFLScience 2014.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. The United States in Europe: Staying the Course to Win the Peace. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hoover JH. The Arizona water-energy nexus: Electricity for water and wastewater services. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2009.

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

[1]

Rampell C. Outsourced Chores Come Back Home. New York Times 2009:B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Proceedings
Abbreviation	Transplant. Proc.
ISSN (print)	0041-1345
Scope	Surgery Transplantation