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]

K.K. Jain, Tech.Sight. Biochips for gene spotting, Science 294 (2001) 621–623.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Duchek, P. Rørth, Guidance of cell migration by EGF receptor signaling during Drosophila oogenesis, Science 291 (2001) 131–133.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.L. Freimund, K. Aflatooni, H. Batelaan, Observation of the Kapitza-Dirac effect, Nature 413 (2001) 142–143.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G.A.T. McVean, S.R. Myers, S. Hunt, P. Deloukas, D.R. Bentley, P. Donnelly, The fine-scale structure of recombination rate variation in the human genome, Science 304 (2004) 581–584.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tms, TMS 2014 Supplemental Proceedings, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M.T. Giardi, G. Rea, B. Berra, eds., Bio-Farms for Nutraceuticals: Functional Food and Safety Control by Biosensors, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.K. Au, Bayesian Operational Modal Analysis, in: E. Chatzi, C. Papadimitriou (Eds.), Identification Methods for Structural Health Monitoring, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 117–135.

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]

T. Hale, Hundreds Of Laboratory-Riased Chimpanzees Are About To Experience Freedom For The First Time, IFLScience (2016).

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, IRS Website: Long-Term Strategy Needed to Improve Interactive Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.J. Morgan, Analyzing Red and Gray Stages of Bark Beetle Attack in the San Bernardino National Forest Using Remote Sensing, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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.W. Walsh, House Republicans Advance Plan to Rescue Puerto Rico, New York Times (2016) B1.

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