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]

Greer AL. Too hot to melt. Nature 2000;404:134–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Larsen PL, Clarke CF. Extension of life-span in Caenorhabditis elegans by a diet lacking coenzyme Q. Science 2002;295:120–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ahn CH, Triscone J-M, Mannhart J. Electric field effect in correlated oxide systems. Nature 2003;424:1015–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Russelle MP, Morey RV, Baker JM, Porter PM, Jung H-JG. Comment on “Carbon-negative biofuels from low-input high-diversity grassland biomass.” Science 2007;316:1567; author reply 1567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Carvalho MC. Practical Laboratory Automation. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Blum C. Hybrid Metaheuristics: Powerful Tools for Optimization. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fichtner H, Heber B, Herbst K, Kopp A, Scherer K. Solar Activity, the Heliosphere, Cosmic Rays and Their Impact on the Earth’s Atmosphere. In: Lübken F-J, editor. Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES): Highlights from a Priority Program, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 55–78.

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]

Fang J. Why Does Marijuana Give You The Munchies? IFLScience 2015.

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. Aviation Safety: Is Re-regulation Needed To Improve Aviation Safety. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Myers KE. The First Determination of the Proton’s Weak Charge Through Parity-Violating Asymmetry Measurements in Elastic e + p and e + Al Scattering. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2012.

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]

Urbina I. Video Captures 4 Murders, but Killers Go Unpunished. New York Times 2015:A1.

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

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