How to format your references using the Monoclonal Antibodies in Immunodiagnosis and Immunotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Monoclonal Antibodies in Immunodiagnosis and Immunotherapy (MAB). 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

Mesirov JP. Computer science. Accessible reproducible research. Science 2010;327(5964):415–416.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elderfield H, Rickaby RE. Oceanic Cd/P ratio and nutrient utilization in the glacial Southern Ocean. Nature 2000;405(6784):305–310.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schnupp JW, Mrsic-Flogel TD, King AJ. Linear processing of spatial cues in primary auditory cortex. Nature 2001;414(6860):200–204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zanazzi A, Kohn MJ, MacFadden BJ, et al. Large temperature drop across the Eocene-Oligocene transition in central North America. Nature 2007;445(7128):639–642.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonem JM. Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2011.

An edited book

Zhang J, (ed). Ecological Continuum from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Watersheds to the East China Sea Continental Margin. Estuaries of the World. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kinder-Kurlanda K, Boos D. Socio-Ethical Issues of Ubicomp: Societal Trends, Transparency, and Information Control. In: Ubiquitous Computing in the Workplace: What Ethical Issues? An Interdisciplinary Perspective. (Kinder-Kurlanda K, Ehrwein Nihan C. eds). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015; pp. 61–74.

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 Monoclonal Antibodies in Immunodiagnosis and Immunotherapy.

Blog post

Andrews R. Australia Will Suddenly Move 1.8 Meters North On New Year’s Day. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/australia-suddenly-move-north-new-years-day/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Drug Education: Limited Progress in Program Evaluation. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kolakoski M. The Appeal to Be Heard and the Trope of Listening in Classic Film and African American Literature. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ; 2013.

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

Rosenberg E. Denise Matthews, 57, Singer Known as Vanity. New York Times 2016;B16.

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	Monoclonal Antibodies in Immunodiagnosis and Immunotherapy
ISSN (online)	2167-9436
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