How to format your references using the Immunogenetics citation style

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

Weiss BP (2012) Planetary science. A vitrage of asteroid magnetism. Science 338:897–898

A journal article with 2 authors

Huynh KD, Lee JT (2003) Inheritance of a pre-inactivated paternal X chromosome in early mouse embryos. Nature 426:857–862

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanaka S-I, Matsunami M, Kimura S-I (2013) An investigation of electron-phonon coupling via phonon dispersion measurements in graphite using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. Sci Rep 3:3031

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Weng KC, Castilho PC, Morrissette JM, et al (2005) Satellite tagging and cardiac physiology reveal niche expansion in salmon sharks. Science 310:104–106

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaut Roth C, Faulkner WH Jr (2013) Review Questions for MRI. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Fan R (ed) (2015) Family-Oriented Informed Consent: East Asian and American Perspectives. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kłos M, Waszczyszyn Z (2010) Prediction of Compaction Characteristics of Granular Soils by Neural Networks. In: Diamantaras K, Duch W, Iliadis LS (eds) Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2010: 20th International Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 15-18, 2010, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 42–45

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 Immunogenetics.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Astronomers Spot ENORMOUS Black Hole From The Dawn Of The Universe. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/supermassive-black-hole-discovered-early-universe/. 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 (1994) Automated Welfare Systems: Historical Costs and Projections. 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

Tofthagen CS (2008) Development and psychometric evaluation of the Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Assessment Tool. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Brantley B (2017) Hear a Song, Pick a Side. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weiss 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Huynh and Lee 2003; Weiss 2012).

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

Two authors: (Huynh and Lee 2003)
Three or more authors: (Weng et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Immunogenetics
Abbreviation	Immunogenetics
ISSN (print)	0093-7711
ISSN (online)	1432-1211
Scope	Genetics Immunology