How to format your references using the Immunologic Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Immunologic Research. 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. Hilser VJ. Biochemistry. An ensemble view of allostery. Science. 2010;327:653–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jayawardhana R, Ivanov VD. Discovery of a young planetary-mass binary. Science. 2006;313:1279–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cysouw M, Dediu D, Moran S. Comment on “Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa.” Science. 2012;335:657; author reply 657.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Al-Sawaf O, Fragoulis A, Rosen C, Kan YW, Sönmez TT, Pufe T, et al. Nrf2 protects against TWEAK-mediated skeletal muscle wasting. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3625.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lemberger P, Morel M. Managing Complexity of Information Systems. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Eraydin A, Taşan-Kok T, editors. Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Erbsen A. The Substance and Illusion of Lex Sportiva. In: Siekmann RCR, Soek J, editors. Lex Sportiva: What is Sports Law? The Hague, The Netherlands: T. M. C. Asser Press; 2012. p. 91–108.

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 Immunologic Research.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Newly Discovered Fossil Suggests Complex Skeletons Evolved Earlier Than Thought. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Savings Possible by Buying Automatic Data Processing Equipment or by Leasing It From Commercial Leasing Firms. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970 Nov. Report No.: B-114829.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Felder Derkacs AD. The role of desmin in the signaling response to mechanical stretch of skeletal muscle [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2010.

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. Crow K. UPPER WEST SIDE. New York Times. 2001 Aug 19;145.

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	Immunologic Research
Abbreviation	Immunol. Res.
ISSN (print)	0257-277X
ISSN (online)	1559-0755
Scope	Immunology