How to format your references using the Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis. 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

Gratton E (2011) Applied physics. Deeper tissue imaging with total detection. Science 331:1016–1017

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown JW, Braver TS (2005) Learned predictions of error likelihood in the anterior cingulate cortex. Science 307:1118–1121

A journal article with 3 authors

Frank F, Sonenberg N, Nagar B (2010) Structural basis for 5’-nucleotide base-specific recognition of guide RNA by human AGO2. Nature 465:818–822

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wu CM, Chen WJ, Zheng Y, et al (2014) Controllability of vortex domain structure in ferroelectric nanodot: fruitful domain patterns and transformation paths. Sci Rep 4:3946

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pelto M (2017) Recent Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Korolev GV (2009) Three-Dimensional Free-Radical Polymerization: Cross-Linked and Hyper-Branched Polymers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hageman MJ (2006) Solubility, Solubilization and Dissolution in Drug Delivery During Lead Optimization. In: Borchardt RT, Kerns EH, Hageman MJ, et al. (eds) Optimizing the “Drug-Like” Properties of Leads in Drug Discovery. Springer, New York, NY, pp 99–130

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 Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Dawn Space Probe Sends New Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1984) High-Quality Senior Marine Corps Officers: How Many Stay Beyond 20 Years of Service? U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Solorzano E (2014) A mindfulness-based psycho-educational group for caregivers of older adults: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Barron J (2017) Keeping Historic, but Expensive, Fixer-Uppers Affordable. New York Times A20

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gratton 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Brown and Braver 2005; Gratton 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Brown and Braver 2005)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis
Abbreviation	Arch. Immunol. Ther. Exp. (Warsz.)
ISSN (print)	0004-069X
ISSN (online)	1661-4917
Scope	Immunology General Medicine Immunology and Allergy