How to format your references using the Cellular and Molecular Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cellular and Molecular Immunology. 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

Garrett C. Ocean science. Enhanced: internal tides and ocean mixing. Science 2003; 301: 1858–1859.

A journal article with 2 authors

Green DJ, Alemseged Z. Australopithecus afarensis scapular ontogeny, function, and the role of climbing in human evolution. Science 2012; 338: 514–517.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blüher M, Kahn BB, Kahn CR. Extended longevity in mice lacking the insulin receptor in adipose tissue. Science 2003; 299: 572–574.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chow E, Lin SY, Johnson SG, Villeneuve PR, Joannopoulos JD, Wendt JR et al. Three-dimensional control of light in a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab. Nature 2000; 407: 983–986.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cauvin C, Escobar F, Serradj A. Cartography and the Impact of the Quantitative Revolution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Markman M, Saltz LB (eds.). Colorectal Cancer: Evidence-Based Chemotherapy Strategies. Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Stone L. Educationalization in a USA Present: A Historicist Rendering. In: Smeyers P, Depaepe M (eds). Educational Research: the Educationalization of Social Problems. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008, pp 61–78.

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 Cellular and Molecular Immunology.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Why Save A Computer Virus? IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-save-a-computer-virus/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Comparison of Amtrak Employee Injury Settlement Costs Under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act and State Workers’ Compensation Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robinson AC. A Geophysical and Geological Characterization of the Bonanza 3D Survey, Claiborne Group, Saint Landry and Evangeline Parishes, Louisiana. 2017.

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

Shultz GP. O’Reilly, Wrong on Reagan. New York Times. 2015; : A31.

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	Cellular and Molecular Immunology
Abbreviation	Cell. Mol. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	2042-0226
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Infectious Diseases