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

Soderblom DR. Astronomy. How old is that star? Science 2009; 323: 45–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yamazaki T, Oda H. Orbital influence on Earth’s magnetic field: 100,000-year periodicity in inclination. Science 2002; 295: 2435–2438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ashton A, Murray AB, Arnault O. Formation of coastline features by large-scale instabilities induced by high-angle waves. Nature 2001; 414: 296–300.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Scheffel A, Gruska M, Faivre D et al. An acidic protein aligns magnetosomes along a filamentous structure in magnetotactic bacteria. Nature 2006; 440: 110–114.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lütolf-Carroll C, Antti Pirnes, Withers LLP. From Innovation to Cash Flows. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

Stroszczynski C, ed. Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Sillesen H. Vascular Hemodynamics. In: AbuRahma AF, Bandyk DF, editors. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Therapy. London: Springer, 2013: 45–53.

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. Want More Girls To Be Interested In Computer Science? Change Some Classroom Stereotypes. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/want-more-girls-be-interested-computer-science-change-some-classroom-stereotypes/.

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. Information Technology: Implementing Best Practices and Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve the Management of Investments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ramey JD. A Case Study: Achievement Studies of Persistent, Transitional, and Transient Populations within the Blitz Program Model at a Large Midwestern Elementary School. 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

Brantley B. Hear a Song, Pick a Side. New York Times 2017 C1.

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

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