How to format your references using the Journal of Translational Autoimmunity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Translational Autoimmunity. 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

[1]

M.L. Falk, Materials science. The flow of glass, Science 318 (2007) 1880–1881.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.C. MacLean, I. Gudelj, Resource competition and social conflict in experimental populations of yeast, Nature 441 (2006) 498–501.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Klak, G. Reeves, T. Hedderson, Unmatched tempo of evolution in Southern African semi-desert ice plants, Nature 427 (2004) 63–65.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L.F. Robinson, G.M. Henderson, L. Hall, I. Matthews, Climatic control of riverine and seawater uranium-isotope ratios, Science 305 (2004) 851–854.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Hagen, Chemiereaktoren, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

A.R. Bradley, The Calculus of Computation: Decision Procedures with Applications to Verification, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Zheng, L. Zhang, W. Xiang, W. Wang, Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks, in: L. Zhang, W. Xiang, W. Wang (Eds.), Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 47–77.

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 Translational Autoimmunity.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Revolutionary Silicon Chip Brings Us Closer To Light-Speed Computer Technology, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/revolutionary-silicon-chip-makes-light-work/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Mendoza-Williams, Road to success: The experiences of academically successful graduation-bound African American males, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

A. Currie, G. Hay, Big Temptations For Wells Fargo, New York Times (2011) B2.

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	Journal of Translational Autoimmunity
ISSN (print)	2589-9090
Scope