How to format your references using the Transplantation Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transplantation Reviews. 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]

Smaglik P. Attractive information. Nature 2005;435:529.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Marler JR, Goldstein LB. Medicine. Stroke--tPA and the clinic. Science 2003;301:1677.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Manoukis NC, Hall B, Geib SM. A computer model of insect traps in a landscape. Sci Rep 2014;4:7015.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bhattacharya S, Narasimha S, Roy A, Banerjee S. Does shining light on gold colloids influence aggregation? Sci Rep 2014;4:5213.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Reid R, Fraser-King G, Schwaderer WD. Data Lifecycles. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Kunche P. Metaheuristic Applications to Speech Enhancement. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Schmauder S, Mishnaevsky L Jr. Atomistic and Dislocation Modelling. In: Mishnaevsky L, editor. Micromechanics and Nanosimulation of Metals and Composites: Advanced Methods and Theoretical Concepts, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 311–418.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. This Eerie Footage Appears To Show The Earth BREATHING. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/creepy-footage-appears-show-earth-breathing/ (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. Space Exploration: Cost, Schedule, and Performance of NASA’s Magellan Mission to Venus. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rodriguez JM. A recruitment campaign for Latino non-kin foster parents: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2011.

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]

de la MERCED MJ. Spotify Is Said to Favor Direct Listing on N.Y.S.E. Over Public Offering. New York Times 2017:B2.

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Transplant. Rev. (Orlando)
ISSN (print)	0955-470X
Scope	Transplantation