How to format your references using the Cytokine citation style

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

A. Abbott, Social scientists call for abolition of dishonesty committee, Nature 421 (2003) 681.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.M. Cooper, A.J.R. Kent, Rapid remobilization of magmatic crystals kept in cold storage, Nature 506 (2014) 480–483.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.C. Finlay, G.E. Small, R.W. Sterner, Human influences on nitrogen removal in lakes, Science 342 (2013) 247–250.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Ota, R. Horisaki, Y. Kawamura, M. Ugawa, I. Sato, K. Hashimoto, R. Kamesawa, K. Setoyama, S. Yamaguchi, K. Fujiu, K. Waki, H. Noji, Ghost cytometry, Science 360 (2018) 1246–1251.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Petrozzi, Practical Instrumental Analysis, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

M.L. Gavrilova, C.J.K. Tan, H. Thapliyal, N. Ranganathan, eds., Transactions on Computational Science XXIV: Special Issue on Reversible Computing, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Berezovsky, W.H. Lau, S. Ghosh, J. Stephens, N.P. Stern, D.D. Awschalom, Spin Coherence in Semiconductors, in: M.E. Flatté, I. Ţifrea (Eds.), Manipulating Quantum Coherence in Solid State Systems, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 130–170.

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 Cytokine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Good Tests Make Children Fail – Here’s Why, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/good-tests-make-children-fail-here-s-why/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, IRS Information Systems: Weaknesses Increase Risk of Fraud and Impair Reliability of Management Information, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.E. Crosby, A phenomenological heuristic study of psychosocial factors that contribute to African American females’ HIV seroconversion, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2012.

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]

B. Mueller, A.L. Baker, Commissioner Vows Tighter Bond With the Public, New York Times (2016) A20.

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	Cytokine
Abbreviation	Cytokine
ISSN (print)	1043-4666
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Immunology Hematology Immunology and Allergy