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

Desiraju GR. In search of clarity. Nature 2003; 423: 485.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heyduk AF, Nocera DG. Hydrogen produced from hydrohalic acid solutions by a two-electron mixed-valence photocatalyst. Science 2001; 293: 1639–1641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arantes-Oliveira N, Berman JR, Kenyon C. Healthy animals with extreme longevity. Science 2003; 302: 611.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Pironio S, Acín A, Massar S et al. Random numbers certified by Bell’s theorem. Nature 2010; 464: 1021–1024.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korhonen J, Savolainen T, Soininen J. Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

Dorsman A, Arslan-Ayaydin Ö, Karan MB, eds. Energy and Finance: Sustainability in the Energy Industry. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Gemulla R, Rösch P, Lehner W. Linked Bernoulli Synopses: Sampling along Foreign Keys. In: Ludäscher B, Mamoulis N, editors. Scientific and Statistical Database Management: 20th International Conference, SSDBM 2008, Hong Kong, China, July 9-11, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008: 6–23.

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

Andrew E. The Smell Of Death: Its Chemical Pattern Could Become A Powerful Forensic Tool. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/smell-death-its-chemical-pattern-could-become-powerful-forensic-tool/.

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. Weekend Settlement: Potential Benefits, Costs, and Legal Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fonteix KA. Separate, But Not Equal: A Qualitative Case Study Comparing Traditional And Homebound Instruction Using Technology. 2013.

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

Crow K. New Bus Shelters on the Way, Customized for Your Corner. New York Times 2001 146.

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