How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Transplantation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Transplantation. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Grogan D. The microbes within. Nature. 2015;518(7540):S2.

A journal article with 2 authors

McLean PF, Cooley L. Protein equilibration through somatic ring canals in Drosophila. Science. 2013;340(6139):1445-1447.

A journal article with 3 authors

Junge W, Sielaff H, Engelbrecht S. Torque generation and elastic power transmission in the rotary F(O)F(1)-ATPase. Nature. 2009;459(7245):364-370.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Saadoun S, Papadopoulos MC, Hara-Chikuma M, Verkman AS. Impairment of angiogenesis and cell migration by targeted aquaporin-1 gene disruption. Nature. 2005;434(7034):786-792.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg MA, Froum SJ. The Dentist’s Drug and Prescription Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,; 2012.

An edited book

Yang SCM, Deng DM, Lin H, eds. Structural Analysis of Non-Classical Logics: The Proceedings of the Second Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium. 1st ed. 2016. Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilson LA. Building a Conceptual Framework for Creating New Knowledge Through a Virtual Interdisciplinary Environment Process. In: Anandarajan M, ed. E-Research Collaboration: Theory, Techniques and Challenges. Springer; 2010:65-82.

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 Indian Journal of Transplantation.

Blog post

Davis J. Copying Rabies Could Provide A New Way To Treat Brain Cancer. IFLScience. February 14, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/copying-rabies-could-provide-a-new-way-to-treat-brain-cancer/

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. Problems in Providing Education Overseas for Dependents of U.S. Personnel. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hao S. An Introduction to Discrete Minimal Surfaces via the Enneper Surface. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 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

Saslow L. Roosevelt Seeking Schools Superintendent. New York Times. April 29, 2007:14LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Indian Journal of Transplantation
ISSN (print)	2212-0017
Scope