How to format your references using the Autoimmunity Highlights citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Autoimmunity Highlights. 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

Turner JA (2004) Sustainable hydrogen production. Science 305:972–974

A journal article with 2 authors

Cannavo E, Cejka P (2014) Sae2 promotes dsDNA endonuclease activity within Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 to resect DNA breaks. Nature 514:122–125

A journal article with 3 authors

Pollitz FF, Wicks C, Thatcher W (2001) Mantle flow beneath a continental strike-slip fault: postseismic deformation after the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake. Science 293:1814–1818

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Farber SA, Pack M, Ho SY, et al (2001) Genetic analysis of digestive physiology using fluorescent phospholipid reporters. Science 292:1385–1388

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bahgat G (2011) Energy Security. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Shai A (2005) Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin: Diagnosis and Therapy — The Practical Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gan L, Yin Z, Jia N, et al (2014) Household Debts. In: Yin Z, Jia N, Xu S, et al (eds) Data you need to know about China: Research Report of China Household Finance Survey•2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 133–142

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 Autoimmunity Highlights.

Blog post

Andrew D (2015) 5 Myths About Sugar That Everyone Needs To Stop Believing. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/5-myths-about-sugar/. 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 (1993) Mass Transit: FTA’s Projections Could Better Reflect State and Local Needs. 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

Takayama M (2010) The development of writing in Japanese and English of JHL speakers and the dynamics of bilingual learning. 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

Ryerson J (2017) University Presses. New York Times BR35

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	Autoimmunity Highlights
Abbreviation	Auto Immun. Highlights
ISSN (print)	2038-0305
ISSN (online)	2038-3274
Scope	Immunology Rheumatology