How to format your references using the Xenotransplantation citation style

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

Wilczek F. From “not wrong” to (maybe right). Nature 2004; 428: 261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogers G, Dragert H. Episodic tremor and slip on the Cascadia subduction zone: the chatter of silent slip. Science 2003; 300: 1942–1943.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scarf D, Hayne H, Colombo M. Pigeons on par with primates in numerical competence. Science 2011; 334: 1664.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Wall S, Yang S, Vidas L et al. Ultrafast disordering of vanadium dimers in photoexcited VO2. Science 2018; 362: 572–576.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant G, Broniatowski M. Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 2. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

Martin D, Serjantov A, eds. Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 4th International Workshop, PET 2004, Toronto, Canada, May 26-28, 2004. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Halabchi F. Doping in Combat Sports. In: Wallace WA, Wroble RR, Maffulli N, Kordi R, editors. Combat Sports Medicine. London: Springer, 2009: 55–72.

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 Xenotransplantation.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Solar Impulse Plane Completes Record-Breaking Flight Around The World Powered Only By The Sun. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-impulse-plane-completes-recordbreaking-flight-around-the-world-powered-only-by-the-sun/.

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

Government Accountability Office. GAO Research Guide: Computers and Information Technology Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ouyang A. Embryonic Stem Cell Culture in Fibrous Bed Bioreactor. 2006.

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

Steinhauer J, Thrush G, Pear R. How a Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President. New York Times 2017 A14.

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 [1,2,3,4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Xenotransplantation
Abbreviation	Xenotransplantation
ISSN (print)	0908-665X
ISSN (online)	1399-3089
Scope	Immunology Transplantation