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

Buckingham S (2010) Call in the women. Nature 468:502

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahn NG, Resing KA (2005) Cell biology. Lessons in rational drug design for protein kinases. Science 308:1266–1267

A journal article with 3 authors

Bacles CFE, Lowe AJ, Ennos RA (2006) Effective seed dispersal across a fragmented landscape. Science 311:628

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sawano F, Terasaki I, Mori H, et al (2005) An organic thyristor. Nature 437:522–524

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Geotechnical Society (2012) Recommendations for Design and Analysis of Earth Structures using Geosynthetic Reinforcements - EBGEO. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany

An edited book

Aseeva R (2014) Fire Behavior and Fire Protection in Timber Buildings. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Pietinen S, Tenhunen V, Tukiainen M (2008) Productivity of Pair Programming in a Distributed Environment – Results from Two Controlled Case Studies. In: O’Connor RV, Baddoo N, Smolander K, Messnarz R (eds) Software Process Improvement: 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Ireland, September 3-5, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 47–58

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

Hamilton K (2017) Why You Should Date Your Best Friend. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-you-should-date-your-best-friend/. 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 (1990) FAA Procurement: Competition for Major Data-Processing Project Was Unjustifiably Limited. 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

Guo Z (2008) Experimental Analysis of Polymer Nanocomposite Foaming Using Carbon Dioxide. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Wagner J (2017) Mets Split a Doubleheader With the Nationals as Their Bullpen Gets a Workout. New York Times D5

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

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