How to format your references using the Annual Review of Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Johnson A. 2013. IBI* series winner. Radiation and atomic literacy for nonscientists. Science. 342(6157):436–37

A journal article with 2 authors

Tissenbaum HA, Guarente L. 2001. Increased dosage of a sir-2 gene extends lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 410(6825):227–30

A journal article with 3 authors

Devincre B, Hoc T, Kubin L. 2008. Dislocation mean free paths and strain hardening of crystals. Science. 320(5884):1745–48

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ohki K, Chung S, Kara P, Hübener M, Bonhoeffer T, Reid RC. 2006. Highly ordered arrangement of single neurons in orientation pinwheels. Nature. 442(7105):925–28

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wartenberg TE. 2013. A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Knudson-Martin C, Wells MA, Samman SK, eds. 2015. Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy: Bridging Emotion, Societal Context, and Couple Interaction. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XV, 153 p. 9 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Shtub A, Karni R. 2010. Marketing Considerations. In ERP: The Dynamics of Supply Chain and Process Management, ed R Karni, pp. 73–86. Boston, MA: Springer US

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 Annual Review of Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. The Crazy Chemistry Of Insects. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1996. Consumer Health Informatics: Emerging Issues. T-AIMD-96-134, 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

Portwood B. 2017. Inclusive Special and General Education Secondary Teachers’ Attitudes towards the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in the General Education Setting. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Lindenwood University

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

Cooper M, Walsh MW. 2013. Surpluses Help, But Fiscal Woes For States Go On. New York Times, June 1, p. A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Immunology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0732-0582
ISSN (online)	1545-3278
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy

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