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

Schiermeier Q. Sea of dreams. Nature 2008; 456: 540–541.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galiana I, Green C. Let the global technology race begin. Nature 2009; 462: 570–571.

A journal article with 3 authors

Passarelli L, Rivalta E, Shuler A. Dike intrusions during rifting episodes obey scaling relationships similar to earthquakes. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 3886.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Scott TF, Schneider AD, Cook WD, Bowman CN. Photoinduced plasticity in cross-linked polymers. Science 2005; 308: 1615–1617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svrcek WY, Mahoney DP, Young BR. A Real-Time Approach to Process Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2007.

An edited book

Liu Z, He J (eds.). Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 8th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2006, Macao, China, November 1-3, 2006. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Goodley D, Swartz L. The Place of Disability. In: Grech S, Soldatic K (eds). Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016, pp 69–83.

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

Hale T. Why You Should Never Wear Cheap, Unfitted Contact Lenses. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cost-wearing-cheap-contact-lenses/ (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. Cost and Legal Authority for Selected Financial Literacy Programs and Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roberson BN. Motivation towards learning perceived in Socratic seminar versus traditional lecture. 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

McAULEY J. The Artists and Their Alley. New York Times. 2016; : M2178.

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