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]

Thulborn T. Comment on “Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.” Science 2003;301:169; author reply 169.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fisher AT, Becker K. Channelized fluid flow in oceanic crust reconciles heat-flow and permeability data. Nature 2000;403:71–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Scott BA, Avidan MS, Crowder CM. Regulation of hypoxic death in C. elegans by the insulin/IGF receptor homolog DAF-2. Science 2002;296:2388–91.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang Q, He D, Peng F, Lei L, Liu P, Yin S, et al. Unusual compression behavior of nanocrystalline CeO₂. Sci Rep 2014;4:4441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Niven PR. Balanced Scorecard Evolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Wong KW, Mendis BSU, Bouzerdoum A, editors. Neural Information Processing. Theory and Algorithms: 17th International Conference, ICONIP 2010, Sydney, Australia, November 22-25, 2010, Proceedings, Part I. vol. 6443. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Raffman D. Vagueness and Observationality. In: Ronzitti G, editor. Vagueness: A Guide, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 107–21.

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]

Andrew D. How A ‘Weather Bomb’ Shook The Earth – And Why That’s Not An Earthquake. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-a-weather-bomb-shook-the-earth-and-why-thats-not-an-earthquake/ (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. School-Age Children: Poverty and Diversity Challenge Schools Nationwide. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zanulabe Din MO. Engineered Synchrony of Bacterial Lysis and its Applications. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 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]

Butler P. Jurors Need to Know That They Can Say No. New York Times 2011:A39.

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