How to format your references using the Immunological Reviews citation style

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

Elliott T. Geophysics. Caught offside. Science. 2002;295(5552):55-57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chin G, Culotta E. The science of inequality. What the numbers tell us. Introduction. Science. 2014;344(6186):818-821.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ledderose J, Dieter S, Schwarz MK. Maturation of postnatally generated olfactory bulb granule cells depends on functional γ-protocadherin expression. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1514.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Raoult D, Audic S, Robert C, et al. The 1.2-megabase genome sequence of Mimivirus. Science. 2004;306(5700):1344-1350.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minenna M. The Incomplete Currency: The Future of the Euro and Solutions for the Eurozone. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Jensen RT, Moran D, eds. The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity. Vol 71. Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Sanín J. Colombia Was Passion: Commercial Nationalism and the Reinvention of Colombianness. In: Volcic Z, Andrejevic M, eds. Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell. Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016:46-64.

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 Immunological Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E. Passing On Taste: How Your Mum’s Diet Affects What You Eat. IFLScience. January 6, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/passing-taste-how-your-mum-s-diet-affects-what-you-eat/

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. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Needs to Ensure New Acquisition Strategy Is Based on Sufficient Information. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lu WY. The Performance Practice of Buddhist Baiqi in Contemporary Taiwan. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Kelly C. Old Graveyards Suffering The Ravages of Vandalism. New York Times. February 25, 2007:WE15.

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	Immunological Reviews
Abbreviation	Immunol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0105-2896
ISSN (online)	1600-065X
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy