How to format your references using the Clinical Immunology citation style

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

J. Podos, Correlated evolution of morphology and vocal signal structure in Darwin’s finches, Nature 409 (2001) 185–188.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.P. Norris, D.T. Grimes, Developmental biology. Cilia discern left from right, Science 338 (2012) 206–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.W. Taylor, A.S. Flecker, R.O. Hall Jr, Loss of a harvested fish species disrupts carbon flow in a diverse tropical river, Science 313 (2006) 833–836.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.B. Johnson, X. Sun, A. Kodani, R. Borges-Monroy, K.M. Girskis, S.C. Ryu, P.P. Wang, K. Patel, D.M. Gonzalez, Y.M. Woo, Z. Yan, B. Liang, R.S. Smith, M. Chatterjee, D. Coman, X. Papademetris, L.H. Staib, F. Hyder, J.B. Mandeville, P.E. Grant, K. Im, H. Kwak, J.F. Engelhardt, C.A. Walsh, B.-I. Bae, Aspm knockout ferret reveals an evolutionary mechanism governing cerebral cortical size, Nature 556 (2018) 370–375.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

O. Ekenna, Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice: Obtaining a good history from the patient remains the cornerstone of an accurate clinical diagnosis: Lessons learned in many years of clinical practice, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

G. Nolte, ed., Peace through International Law: The Role of the International Law Commission. A Colloquium at the Occasion of its Sixtieth Anniversary, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Sharma, J. Yoder, H. Kwon, D. Pack, Vision Based Mobile Target Geo-localization and Target Discrimination Using Bayes Detection Theory, in: M. Ani Hsieh, G. Chirikjian (Eds.), Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: The 11th International Symposium, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 59–71.

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 Clinical Immunology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, What will Climate be Like in 2100? Expect Surprises, Says New Met Office Study, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-will-climate-be-2100-expect-surprises-says-new-met-office-study/ (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, Slotting Fees: Effort to Study the Use of These Payments in the Grocery Industry, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Ciolek, A Mixed Method Study on the Missouri Beginning Teachers Assistance Program and Teacher Retention in Saint Louis School Districts, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2017.

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]

M. Roach, Bodies at War, New York Times (2016) D1.

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	Clinical Immunology
Abbreviation	Clin. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1521-6616
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy