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

Liechty J. Scientists and bankers - a new model army. Nature 2012; 484: 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joyce JA, Fearon DT. T cell exclusion, immune privilege, and the tumor microenvironment. Science 2015; 348: 74–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou J, Thompson B, Hess RF. A new form of rapid binocular plasticity in adult with amblyopia. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 2638.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Cui H, Levesque MP, Vernoux T et al. An evolutionarily conserved mechanism delimiting SHR movement defines a single layer of endodermis in plants. Science 2007; 316: 421–425.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henry-Labordère A. Virtual Roaming Systems for GSM, GPRS and UMTS. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2009.

An edited book

van den Hoven J, Vermaas PE, van de Poel I, eds. Handbook of Ethics, Values, and Technological Design: Sources, Theory, Values and Application Domains. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Rodrigues S. A Classroom Without Walls. In: France B, Compton V, editors. Bringing Communities Together: Connecting Learners with Scientists or Technologists. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2012: 61–72.

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

Davis J. Scientists Develop Self-Healing Airplane Wing. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-develop-self-healing-aeroplane-wing/.

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. Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Year 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haug JJ. A summer literacy intervention for struggling readers at the middle school level using strategies in comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and positive school climate to improve reading comprehension: An evaluation study. 2010.

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

Crouse K. His Term, Forever: Amen. New York Times 2015 B11.

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