How to format your references using the Cellular Immunology citation style

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

S. Stapnes, Detector challenges at the LHC, Nature 448 (2007) 290–296.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.R. Ives, S.R. Carpenter, Stability and diversity of ecosystems, Science 317 (2007) 58–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Nieder, I. Diester, O. Tudusciuc, Temporal and spatial enumeration processes in the primate parietal cortex, Science 313 (2006) 1431–1435.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.K. Li, F.H. Séguin, J.A. Frenje, M. Rosenberg, R.D. Petrasso, P.A. Amendt, J.A. Koch, O.L. Landen, H.S. Park, H.F. Robey, R.P.J. Town, A. Casner, F. Philippe, R. Betti, J.P. Knauer, D.D. Meyerhofer, C.A. Back, J.D. Kilkenny, A. Nikroo, Charged-particle probing of x-ray-driven inertial-fusion implosions, Science 327 (2010) 1231–1235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Baldwin, J. Birkett, O. Facey, G. Rabey, The Forensic Examination and Interpretation of Tool Marks, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

R. Lal, K. Lorenz, R.F. Hüttl, B.U. Schneider, J. von Braun, eds., Recarbonization of the Biosphere: Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Bertarelli, S. Padoa, G. Guaraldi, E. Genovese, M. Corradini, B. Mayeku, J. Kilwake, Low Cost Wireless Technology and Digital Board for Education in Rural Kenya, in: J.J. Yonazi, E. Sedoyeka, E. Ariwa, E. El-Qawasmeh (Eds.), E-Technologies and Networks for Development: First International Conference, ICeND 2011, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, August 3-5, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 52–60.

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 Immunology.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Fish Can Tell People Apart By Their Faces, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fish-can-tell-people-apart-by-their-faces/ (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, Telecommunications: Exposure and Testing Requirements for Mobile Phones Should Be Reassessed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.L. DiPasquale, A phenomenological study of industry professionals’ perceptions of ethics in the title insurance industry, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2010.

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]

L. Greenhouse, Justices to Weigh Search and Consent, New York Times (2008) A17.

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	Cellular Immunology
Abbreviation	Cell. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0008-8749
Scope	Immunology