How to format your references using the Transplantation Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transplantation Research. 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. Farr NL. Questioning placebo controls. Science. 2000;288:1747c.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tingley MP, Huybers P. Recent temperature extremes at high northern latitudes unprecedented in the past 600 years. Nature. 2013;496:201–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Greiner M, Regal CA, Jin DS. Emergence of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate from a Fermi gas. Nature. 2003;426:537–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kvavadze E, Bar-Yosef O, Belfer-Cohen A, Boaretto E, Jakeli N, Matskevich Z, et al. 30,000-year-old wild flax fibers. Science. 2009;325:1359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Anaya-Lara O, Campos-Gaona D, Moreno-Goytia E, Adam G. Offshore Wind Energy Generation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Wettestad J. Rescuing EU Emissions Trading: The Climate Policy Flagship. Jevnaker T, editor. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nieman LK. The Diagnosis of Cushing’s Syndrome. In: Swearingen B, Biller BMK, editors. Cushing’s Disease. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011. p. 45–55.

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 Research.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. There Probably Won’t Be A “Mini Ice Age” In 15 Years. IFLScience. 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. Release of Carson City Silver Dollar Bidders List. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Feb. Report No.: LCD-79-106.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Merkurjev D. Understanding Enhancer Role in Transcriptional Response [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 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. Smith M, Pérez-Peña R, Bromwich JE. Iowa Man Surrenders After Two Police Officers Are Ambushed Overnight. New York Times. 2016 Nov 2;A15.

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 Research
Abbreviation	Transplant. Res.
ISSN (online)	2047-1440
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