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]

Schmidt B. Perspective: if not funding then teaching. Nature 2014;511:S81.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kofoed EM, Vance RE. Innate immune recognition of bacterial ligands by NAIPs determines inflammasome specificity. Nature 2011;477:592–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhu Z, Gauthier DJ, Boyd RW. Stored light in an optical fiber via stimulated Brillouin scattering. Science 2007;318:1748–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Saito K, Inagaki S, Mituyama T, Kawamura Y, Ono Y, Sakota E, et al. A regulatory circuit for piwi by the large Maf gene traffic jam in Drosophila. Nature 2009;461:1296–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Frikha M. Ad Hoc Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Böckle G, Wiese G, editors. Computations with Modular Forms: Proceedings of a Summer School and Conference, Heidelberg, August/September 2011. vol. 6. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Buskes G, Bu Q, Kusraev AG. Bilinear Maps on Products of Vector Lattices: A Survey. In: Boulabiar K, Buskes G, Triki A, editors. Positivity, Basel: Birkhäuser; 2007, p. 97–126.

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]

Luntz S. Mice Socially Transfer Pain – What About Humans? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mice-socially-transfer-pain-what-about-humans/ (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. Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Did Not Fully Disclose Uses of Personal Information During Secure Flight Program Testing in Initial Privacy Notes, but Has Recently Taken Steps to More Fully Inform the Public. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Razzaghi M. Quantum Tunneling in Hydride Transfer Reactions in Solution. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2013.

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]

Wagner J. Once Damaged Goods, Mets Reliever Returns to the Top Shelf. New York Times 2016:B10.

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