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]

Petherick A. Development: Mother’s milk: A rich opportunity. Nature 2010;468:S5-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Accardi A, Miller C. Secondary active transport mediated by a prokaryotic homologue of ClC Cl- channels. Nature 2004;427:803–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Damasceno PF, Engel M, Glotzer SC. Predictive self-assembly of polyhedra into complex structures. Science 2012;337:453–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang X, Pickin KA, Bose R, Jura N, Cole PA, Kuriyan J. Inhibition of the EGF receptor by binding of MIG6 to an activating kinase domain interface. Nature 2007;450:741–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Leddra M. Time Matters. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Broch-Due V, Bertelsen BE, editors. Violent Reverberations: Global Modalities of Trauma. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rizzi A, Montanari R, Bertolini M, Bottani E, Volpi A. Impiego della tecnologia RFID per la tracciabilità dei prodotti alimentari. In: Montanari R, Bertolini M, Bottani E, Volpi A, editors. Logistica e tecnologia RFID: Creare valore nella filiera alimentare e nel largo consumo, Milano: Springer; 2011, p. 111–49.

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]

Andrew E. Why Have There Been so Many Shark Attacks in North Carolina? 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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Status of Bureau of Prisons’ Year 2000 Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Marquez HH. Social Capital, Academics, and Sense of Belonging among High School Foster Youth. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Pilon M. Awash in an Olympics Afterglow, but Still Remote. New York Times 2014:TR7.

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

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