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 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

1. S. Thor., “Neuroscience: Stem Cells in Multiple Time Zones,” Nature 498, no. 7455 (2013): 441–443.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. K. Wang, M. Kinoshita., “Geophysics. Dangers of Being Thin and Weak,” Science (New York, N.Y.) 342, no. 6163 (2013): 1178–1180.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. I. E. L. Stephens, J. S. Elias, Y. Shao-Horn., “CATALYSIS. The Importance of Being Together,” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350, no. 6257 (2015): 164–165.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

1. R. Eelkema, M. M. Pollard, J. Vicario, et al., “Molecular Machines: Nanomotor Rotates Microscale Objects,” Nature 440, no. 7081 (2006): 163.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. J. Dunlop, D. Girma, J. Irvine., “Digital Mobile Communications and the Tetra System,” West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2013.

An edited book

1. P. Majumder, M. Mitra, P. Bhattacharyya, et al., eds., “Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages: Second International Workshop, FIRE 2010, Gandhinagar, India, February 19-21, 2010 and Third International Workshop, FIRE 2011, Bombay, India, December 2-4, 2011, Revised Selected Papers,” Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. I. I. Shapiro., “Radar Astronomy, General Relativity, and Celestial Mechanics,” In: , Colombo G, editor. , Modern Questions of Celestial Mechanics. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011: 65–168.

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

1. A. Carpineti., “Astronomical Union Formally Approves Names Of 227 Stars,” accessed Oct. 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomical-union-formally-approves-names-of-227-stars/.

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

1. Government Accountability Office., “Coast Guard Cutters: Actions Needed Now to Ensure Better Management of Parts and Supplies,” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. J. M. Reyes., “A Support Group for Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis,” 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

1. E. St. John Kelly., “As Cupid Sheathes Arrows, Voodoo Dolls Come Out,” New York Times 1999 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