How to format your references using the Journal of Leukocyte Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Leukocyte Biology (JLB). 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

Hafner SD. Ecology: Is fertilization efficiency misleading? Nature. 2003;422:397–8; discussion 398.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keusch GT, Medlin CA. Tapping the power of small institutions. Nature. 2003;422:561–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang G, Jiang X, Wang E. Tubular graphite cones. Science. 2003;300:472–474.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Weissmüller J, Viswanath RN, Kramer D, et al. Charge-induced reversible strain in a metal. Science. 2003;300:312–315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Neupert R. French Animation History. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

Hoop H de, Swart P de (eds). Differential Subject Marking. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Oku K, Tung TS, Hattori F. Collaborative Filtering for Predicting Users’ Potential Preferences. In: König A, Dengel A, Hinkelmann K, et al. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 15th International Conference, KES 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011:44–52.

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 Journal of Leukocyte Biology.

Blog post

Davis J. Schizophrenia Linked To Smoking. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-are-schizophrenia-and-smoking-linked/. 2015. Accessed October 30, 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. Aircraft Preservation: Preserving DOD Aircraft Significant to Aviation History. NSIAD-88-170BR, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 31, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Selis AH. Holding the center: How one Jewish day school negotiates differences in a pluralistic community. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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

McKINLEY JC Jr. 24 Years Later, DNA Leads To Arrest in Attack on Girl. New York Times, May 5, 2017, A29.

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	Journal of Leukocyte Biology
ISSN (print)	0741-5400
ISSN (online)	1938-3673
Scope