How to format your references using the Autoimmunity Reviews citation style

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

[1]

Ozbay E. Plasmonics: merging photonics and electronics at nanoscale dimensions. Science 2006;311:189–93.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Melville WK, Matusov P. Distribution of breaking waves at the ocean surface. Nature 2002;417:58–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rey PF, Coltice N, Flament N. Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics. Nature 2014;513:405–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Rad R, Rad L, Wang W, Cadinanos J, Vassiliou G, Rice S, et al. PiggyBac transposon mutagenesis: a tool for cancer gene discovery in mice. Science 2010;330:1104–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mazzi B. Treasury Finance and Development Banking. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Kusuoka S, Yamazaki A, editors. Advances in Mathematical Economics. vol. 8. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lashwood A, Say G. Complex Issues in PGD. In: El-Toukhy T, Braude P, editors. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in Clinical Practice, London: Springer; 2014, p. 31–9.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. Meteor Showers Are Warped By Gravity Of Planets. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/meteor-showers-are-warped-by-gravity-of-planets/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Telecommunication: Air Force Cost Estimates for Scope Exchange Telephone Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mills Campbell D. Exploratory Inquiry: Fundraising at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Reduce Resource Dependence. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2017.

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

[1]

Marx L. Working Around the Clock, but Finding Time for Love. New York Times 2017:ST13.

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Autoimmun. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1568-9972
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy