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]

Finkel A. Perspective: powering up citations. Nature 2014;511:S77.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ricklefs RE, Renner SS. Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality. Science 2012;335:464–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dandekar AA, Chugani S, Greenberg EP. Bacterial quorum sensing and metabolic incentives to cooperate. Science 2012;338:264–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Moellering RE, Cornejo M, Davis TN, Del Bianco C, Aster JC, Blacklow SC, et al. Direct inhibition of the NOTCH transcription factor complex. Nature 2009;462:182–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Guinot V. Wave Propagation in Fluids. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Fischer X. Research in Interactive Design. Paris: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Didier E. Alain Desrosières’s spectacles: one lens realist, the other constructivist. In: Bruno I, Jany-Catrice F, Touchelay B, editors. The Social Sciences of Quantification: From Politics of Large Numbers to Target-Driven Policies, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 43–53.

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]

Andrews R. Cancer Expert On AHCA: “This Bill Will Make America Sicker.” IFLScience 2017.

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. Strong Centralized Management Needed in Computer-Based Information Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Steinberg J. The Social Construction of Beauty: Body Modification Examined Through the Lens of Social Learning Theory. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015.

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]

Shpigel B. Finally on Big Stage, Predators Stumble in an Uneven Performance. New York Times 2017:B9.

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

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