How to format your references using the Expert Review of Clinical Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of Clinical 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	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]

Fabbiano G. Astronomy. The hunt for intermediate-mass black holes. Science. 2005;307(5709):533–534.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Reineke S, Baldo MA. Room temperature triplet state spectroscopy of organic semiconductors. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3797.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chuck AL, Turner SM, Liss PS. Direct evidence for a marine source of C1 and C2 alkyl nitrates. Science. 2002;297(5584):1151–1154.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Wikelski M, Wong V, Chevalier B, et al. Marine iguanas die from trace oil pollution. Nature. 2002;417(6889):607–608.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nguyen K, Guo X, Pan Y. Multiple Biological Sequence Alignment: Scoring Functions, Algorithms and Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Read R, Urzhumtsev AG, Lunin VY, editors. Advancing Methods for Biomolecular Crystallography. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rudolph JL. Delirium After Cardiac Surgery. In: Katlic MR, editor. Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Elderly: Evidence-Based Practice. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 57–66.

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 Expert Review of Clinical Immunology.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Songbirds Can Sense Impending Storms [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/songbirds-can-sense-impending-storms-and-skedaddle/.

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. Indian Affairs: Actions Needed to Better Manage Indian School Construction Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017. Report No.: GAO-17-447. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Arens JL. Power, Oppression, and Group Difference Interrogation: A Call to Social Justice Movement Organizations [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2015.

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]

This story was reported by C.J. Chivers, Arvedlund EE, Kishkovsky S, et al. Editor’s Death Raises Questions About Change in Russia. New York Times. 2004 Jul 18;13.

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	Expert Review of Clinical Immunology
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Clin. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1744-666X
ISSN (online)	1744-8409
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy