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]

Gurnett DA. Obituary: James A. Van Allen (1914-2006). Nature 2006;443:158.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Patel MR, Shen K. RSY-1 is a local inhibitor of presynaptic assembly in C. elegans. Science 2009;323:1500–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chait R, Craney A, Kishony R. Antibiotic interactions that select against resistance. Nature 2007;446:668–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lunov O, Zablotskii V, Churpita O, Chánová E, Syková E, Dejneka A, et al. Cell death induced by ozone and various non-thermal plasmas: therapeutic perspectives and limitations. Sci Rep 2014;4:7129.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cumming DJ. Venture Capital. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Skopina M. Multivariate Wavelet Frames. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Halper J. Advances in the Use of Growth Factors for Treatment of Disorders of Soft Tissues. In: Halper J, editor. Progress in Heritable Soft Connective Tissue Diseases, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014, p. 59–76.

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]

Hale T. Grainy Footage Fuels Rumor That Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Lives On. IFLScience 2016.

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. Federal-Aid Highways: FHWA Has Improved Its Risk Management Approach, but Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Project Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Janairo B. Recovering Together: A Psychosocial Support Group for Young Adults with Schizophrenia and the People in Their Lives: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Rao T. Comfort Food. New York Times 2017:BR13.

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