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

Okasha S (2010) Altruism researchers must cooperate. Nature 467:653–655

A journal article with 2 authors

Spencer JR, Denk T (2010) Formation of Iapetus’ extreme albedo dichotomy by exogenically triggered thermal ice migration. Science 327:432–435

A journal article with 3 authors

Finn CA, Sisson TW, Deszcz-Pan M (2001) Aerogeophysical measurements of collapse-prone hydrothermally altered zones at Mount Rainier volcano. Nature 409:600–603

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Malhi Y, Roberts JT, Betts RA, et al (2008) Climate change, deforestation, and the fate of the Amazon. Science 319:169–172

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Inness P, Dorling S (2012) Operational Weather Forecasting. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kendall G, Burke EK, Petrovic S, Gendreau M (2005) Multidisciplinary Scheduling: Theory and Applications: 1st International Conference, MISTA ’03 Nottingham, UK, 13–15 August 2003 Selected Papers. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Paolone AR (2014) Citizenship, Values and Social Orders. The Assessment System of Census and Ritual Education in Ancient Rome. In: Vega L (ed) Empires, Post-Coloniality and Interculturality: New Challenges for Comparative Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 75–85

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

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Discover Microbes That Have Remained Essentially Unchanged For 2 Billion Years. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-discover-microbes-have-remained-essentially-unchanged-2-billion-years/. 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 (1989) Student Athletes: Most Schools Meet Proposed Academic Performance Reporting Requirements. 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

Rey D (2017) Chaos, Observability and Symplectic Structure in Optimal Estimation. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Higgins A (2017) Putin Butts In to Claim There Were No Secrets, And Says He’ll Prove It. New York Times A16

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