How to format your references using the Molecular Immunology citation style

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

Kreeger, K., 2004. Short-term limbo. Nature 427, 760–761.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watmough, S.A., Dillon, P.J., 2003. Mycorrhizal weathering in base-poor forests. Nature 423, 823–4; discussion 824.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gunanathan, C., Ben-David, Y., Milstein, D., 2007. Direct synthesis of amides from alcohols and amines with liberation of H2. Science 317, 790–792.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sereno, P.C., Tan, L., Brusatte, S.L., Kriegstein, H.J., Zhao, X., Cloward, K., 2009. Tyrannosaurid skeletal design first evolved at small body size. Science 326, 418–422.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levy, G., Levin, B., 2014. The Biostatistics of Aging. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dawid, H., Semmler, W. (Eds.), 2011. Computational Methods in Economic Dynamics, Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Donmez, P., Carbonell, J.G., 2010. From Active to Proactive Learning Methods, in: Koronacki, J., Raś, Z.W., Wierzchoń, S.T., Kacprzyk, J. (Eds.), Advances in Machine Learning I: Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Ryszard S.Michalski, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 97–120.

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 Molecular Immunology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. IFLScience Meets Andy Weir: No Life On Mars But We Will Go There, Says The Martian Author [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-talked-andy-weir-author-martian-about/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2006. No Child Left Behind Act: Education’s Data Improvement Efforts Could Strengthen the Basis for Distributing Title III Funds (No. GAO-07-140). 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

Glock, M., 2008. Cultural futuristics: Bringing consciousness to cultural complexes and soul to scenario based planning (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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, R.W., 1999. The Police Department’s 9-Millimeter Revolution. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kreeger, 2004; Watmough and Dillon, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Watmough and Dillon, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Sereno et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Immunology
Abbreviation	Mol. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0161-5890
Scope	Molecular Biology Immunology