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.W. Lauher, Chemistry. A versatile molecular trap built from hydrogen-bonded tiles, Science. 333 (2011) 415–416.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Bass, J.S. Takahashi, Circadian integration of metabolism and energetics, Science. 330 (2010) 1349–1354.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Akbarzadeh, C.-W. Qiu, A.J. Danner, Exploiting design freedom in biaxial dielectrics to enable spatially overlapping optical instruments, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2055.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Aoki, A. Huxley, E. Ressouche, D. Braithwaite, J. Flouquet, J.P. Brison, E. Lhotel, C. Paulsen, Coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in URhGe, Nature. 413 (2001) 613–616.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Wuestenberg, Clinical Small Animal Care, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Ames, Iowa, USA, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

M. Bertolotto, C. Trombetta, eds., Scrotal Pathology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Hendler, A.M. Mulvehill, What Computers Can’t Do–Yet, in: A.M. Mulvehill (Ed.), Social Machines: The Coming Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking, and Humanity, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2016: pp. 72–96.

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, When It Comes To Nature’s Public Enemy Number One, The Mosquito Is A Modern Monster, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/when-it-comes-nature-s-public-enemy-number-one-mosquito-modern-monster/ (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, Examination of the Social Security Administration’s Systems Modernization Plan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.E. Powell, Menasha Litigation: Wake-Up Call or Just A False Alarm, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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

[1]

M. Paulson, Idina Menzel Chooses An Off Broadway Stage, New York Times. (2017) C3.

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

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