How to format your references using the Cellular and Molecular Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cellular and Molecular Immunology. 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

Shelton J. Scientists and the media must give a balanced view. Nature 2011; 479: 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Menand T, Tait SR. A phenomenological model for precursor volcanic eruptions. Nature 2001; 411: 678–680.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop NA, Lu T, Yankner BA. Neural mechanisms of ageing and cognitive decline. Nature 2010; 464: 529–535.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hartig G, Churakov G, Warren WC, Brosius J, Makałowski W, Schmitz J. Retrophylogenomics place tarsiers on the evolutionary branch of anthropoids. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 1756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolley T. Low Impact Building. John Wiley & Sons: Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

Farid AM, Suh NP (eds.). Axiomatic Design in Large Systems: Complex Products, Buildings and Manufacturing Systems. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhowmik MK, Kennedy KJ. Dropout Ethnic Minority Young People. In: Kennedy KJ (ed). ‘Out of School’ Ethnic Minority Young People in Hong Kong. Springer: Singapore, 2016, pp 115–151.

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 Cellular and Molecular Immunology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. New Theory Suggests A Single Solution To The Biggest Problems In Physics. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-theory-suggests-a-single-solution-to-the-biggest-problems-in-physics/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Executive Office of the President: Analysis of Mandated Report on Key Information Technology Areas. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Britt CA. Dying in America: A historical analysis of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. 2012.

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

Fausset R. After Proudly Defying Washington, Hard-Hit Texas Needs Its Aid. New York Times. 2017; : A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Cellular and Molecular Immunology
Abbreviation	Cell. Mol. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	2042-0226
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Infectious Diseases