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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bates GP. BIOMEDICINE: One Misfolded Protein Allows Others to Sneak By. Science 2006; 311: 1385–1386.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luan B, Robbins MO. The breakdown of continuum models for mechanical contacts. Nature 2005; 435: 929–932.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haince J-F, Rouleau M, Poirier GG. Transcription. Gene expression needs a break to unwind before carrying on. Science 2006; 312: 1752–1753.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Pascual O, Casper KB, Kubera C, Zhang J, Revilla-Sanchez R, Sul J-Y, Takano H, Moss SJ, McCarthy K, Haydon PG. Astrocytic purinergic signaling coordinates synaptic networks. Science 2005; 310: 113–116.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coutts J. Loft Conversions. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

An edited book

Golland P, Hata N, Barillot C, Hornegger J, Howe R (eds). Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014: 17th International Conference, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-18, 2014, Proceedings, Part III. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Cuevas E, Zaldívar D, Perez-Cisneros M. Template Matching by Using the States of Matter Algorithm. In: Zaldívar D, Perez-Cisneros M, editors. Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016: 79–105.

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 World Journal of Transplantation.

Blog post

Hale T. The Hilarious Winners Of The Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2016. IFLScience. 2016.

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. Rail Safety: The Federal Railroad Administration Is Taking Steps to Better Target Its Oversight, but Assessment of Results Is Needed to Determine Impact. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dalton R. The story of Huo Yuanjia and the narrative of national humiliation in post-Mao China. 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

Saslow L. Roosevelt District on Mend With Acting Schools Chief. New York Times. 2007; : LI13.

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 ^[1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	World Journal of Transplantation
ISSN (online)	2220-3230
Scope