How to format your references using the Inflammopharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Inflammopharmacology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Check E (2007) Abbott’s AIDS fight-back. Nature 448:14

A journal article with 2 authors

Alley RB, Joughin I (2012) Climate change. Modeling ice-sheet flow. Science 336:551–552

A journal article with 3 authors

Downs JA, Lowndes NF, Jackson SP (2000) A role for Saccharomyces cerevisiae histone H2A in DNA repair. Nature 408:1001–1004

A journal article with 5 or more authors

O’Brien CA, Pollett A, Gallinger S, Dick JE (2007) A human colon cancer cell capable of initiating tumour growth in immunodeficient mice. Nature 445:106–110

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiedenmannott W (2016) Industrielle Wasseraufbereitung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Mrozynski G (2013) Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Collection of Problems. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden

A chapter in an edited book

Sacco R (2009) Numerical Simulation of Thermal Oxidation Process in Semiconductor Devices Using Mixed—Hybrid Finite Elements. In: Carstensen C, Wriggers P (eds) Mixed Finite Element Technologies. Springer, Vienna, pp 107–130

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 Inflammopharmacology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Researchers Uncover A Fourth Ancestral “Tribe” To Modern Europeans. In: IFLScience. 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 (1974) Assessment of the Work Incentive Program in Washington State. 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

Fouts J (2014) A mental health outreach program for adolescent gang members and at-risk youth: A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Pilon M (2012) Symbols for Satire. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2007; Alley and Joughin 2012).

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

Two authors: (Alley and Joughin 2012)
Three or more authors: (O’Brien et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Inflammopharmacology
Abbreviation	Inflammopharmacology
ISSN (print)	0925-4692
ISSN (online)	1568-5608
Scope	Immunology Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology