How to format your references using the Transplantation Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transplantation Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

J. Maldacena, Cosmology. Testing gauge/gravity duality on a quantum black hole, Science 344 (2014) 806–807.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Bromm, A. Loeb, The formation of the first low-mass stars from gas with low carbon and oxygen abundances, Nature 425 (2003) 812–814.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.W. Moore, L.Y. Jan, Y.N. Jan, hamlet, a binary genetic switch between single- and multiple- dendrite neuron morphology, Science 297 (2002) 1355–1358.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Neder, N. Ofek, Y. Chung, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu, V. Umansky, Interference between two indistinguishable electrons from independent sources, Nature 448 (2007) 333–337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.A. Goshtasby, Theory and Applications of Image Registration, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

D. Kundisch, D.J. Veit, T. Weitzel, C. Weinhardt, eds., Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry: 4th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2008, Paris, France, December 13, 2008. Revised Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Lind, Moral Competence and Democratic Ways of Life, in: W.G. Weber, M. Thoma, A. Ostendorf, L. Chisholm (Eds.), Democratic Competences and Social Practices in Organizations, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2012: pp. 62–85.

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 Reports.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, India Is Set To Spend Over $6 Billion On Restoring Their Forests, 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, Technology Transfer: Federal Agencies’ Patent Licensing Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.L. Polk, Examining students with disabilities in a linked learning pathway, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

C. Sang-Hun, M. Fackler, A.L. Cowan, S. Sayare, Greed Before the Fall, New York Times (2014) 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 Reports
ISSN (print)	2451-9596
Scope	Surgery Transplantation