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]

D. Zanette, Playing by numbers, Nature 453 (2008) 988–989.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.K. Ginther, S. Kahn, WOMEN IN SCIENCE. Comment on “Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines,” Science 349 (2015) 391.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Hillenbrand, T. Taubner, F. Keilmann, Phonon-enhanced light matter interaction at the nanometre scale, Nature 418 (2002) 159–162.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Kaneko, T. Sakuma, T. Yamamoto, T. Mashimo, Simple knockout by electroporation of engineered endonucleases into intact rat embryos, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Smilansky, 10 Moral Paradoxes, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

R.A. de Mello, Á. Tavares, G. Mountzios, eds., International Manual of Oncology Practice: (iMOP) - Principles of Medical Oncology, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Galison, The Journalist, the Scientist, and Objectivity, in: F. Padovani, A. Richardson, J.Y. Tsou (Eds.), Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 57–75.

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. O`Callaghan, A Coal Plant In India Has Found A Way To Turn Almost All Its CO2 Emissions Into Baking Powder, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/coal-plant-in-india-has-found-a-way-to-turn-almost-all-co2-emissions-into-baking-powder/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Problems And Progress Of The U.S. Army Materiel Command’s Automated Data Processing Service Center Concept, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.T. Brown, Identifying potential co-repressors associated with dexamethasone-induced repression of the MUC5AC gene, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

K. Alexander, The Day My Free Computer Music Died, New York Times (2001) 96.

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