How to format your references using the Autoimmunity Highlights citation style

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

Kirshner RP (2014) Astrophysics: Supernova seen through γ-ray eyes. Nature 512:375–376

A journal article with 2 authors

Butler D, Pockley P (2000) Monsanto makes rice genome public. Nature 404:534

A journal article with 3 authors

Hinrichs K-U, Hmelo LR, Sylva SP (2003) Molecular fossil record of elevated methane levels in late Pleistocene coastal waters. Science 299:1214–1217

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shi S, Xu C, Yang C, et al (2013) Flexible asymmetric supercapacitors based on ultrathin two-dimensional nanosheets with outstanding electrochemical performance and aesthetic property. Sci Rep 3:2598

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Archer RD (2002) Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA

An edited book

Hartman A, Kreische D (2005) Model Driven Architecture – Foundations and Applications: First European Conference, ECMDA-FA 2005, Nuremberg, Germany, November 7-10, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Pinto VF, Patriarca A, Pose G (2013) Mycotoxins Associated to Fusarium Species that Caused Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat in Latin-America. In: Alconada Magliano TM, Chulze SN (eds) Fusarium Head Blight in Latin America. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 59–73

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 Autoimmunity Highlights.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Dumb Bumblebees Are Better Workers. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1988) Wallop-Breaux Trust Fund. 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

Broussard J (2014) An Analysis of Corporal Punishment Practices in the State of Georgia. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Angelos J (2017) The Prophet. New York Times MM46

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	Autoimmunity Highlights
Abbreviation	Auto Immun. Highlights
ISSN (print)	2038-0305
ISSN (online)	2038-3274
Scope	Immunology Rheumatology