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]

B. Bowerman, Cell biology. Oxidative stress and cancer: a beta-catenin convergence, Science. 308 (2005) 1119–1120.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Wang, A.Z. Genack, Transport through modes in random media, Nature. 471 (2011) 345–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.C. Friedberg, R. Wagner, M. Radman, Specialized DNA polymerases, cellular survival, and the genesis of mutations, Science. 296 (2002) 1627–1630.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Sun, W. Zhang, Y. Xing, F. Li, Y. Zhao, Z. Xia, L. Wang, X. Ma, Q.-K. Xue, J. Wang, High temperature superconducting FeSe films on SrTiO3 substrates, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6040.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.R. New, Hymenoptera and Conservation, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S. Natarajan, Boosted Statistical Relational Learners: From Benchmarks to Data-Driven Medicine, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K.J.R. Rasmussen, Stainless Steel Structures, in: J. Rondal, D. Dubina (Eds.), Light Gauge Metal Structures Recent Advances, Springer, Vienna, 2005: pp. 67–119.

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, These Creepy X-Rays Will Make You Look At People In A Whole New Light, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/these-creepy-x-rays-will-make-you-look-people-whole-new-light/ (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, Costs of Government Funded Trips for Invitees To Attend Space Shuttle Launches at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Bowman, A Close Look at the 2014 Passage of the Illinois County School Facility Sales Tax in Greene County, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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]

J. Hodgman, Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times. (2016) MM26.

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