How to format your references using the Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 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]

N. Engheta, Applied physics. Antenna-guided light, Science 334 (2011) 317–318.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.S. Bostwick, R.O. Prum, Courting bird sings with stridulating wing feathers, Science 309 (2005) 736.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. Xie, H. Wang, J. Wu, Similar morphological and molecular signatures shared by female and male germline stem cells, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5580.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Penterman, S.I. Klink, H. de Koning, G. Nisato, D.J. Broer, Single-substrate liquid-crystal displays by photo-enforced stratification, Nature 417 (2002) 55–58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.C. Lee, N.J. McCormick, Risk and Safety Analysis of Nuclear Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

F. Campuzano, Supply Chain Simulation: A System Dynamics Approach for Improving Performance, Springer, London, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Sharma, R. Gupta, G. Dugar, A.K. Srivastava, Impact of Application of Biofertilizers on Soil Structure and Resident Microbial Community Structure and Function, in: D.K. Maheshwari (Ed.), Bacteria in Agrobiology: Plant Probiotics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 65–77.

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 Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Can Geoengineering Save The Coral Reefs?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/can-geoengineering-save-coral-reefs/ (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, Federally Funded Math and Science Materials, 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]

Y. Vazquez Baeza, Statistical Representations Of Microbial Systems, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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]

S. Frenkel, M. Scott, P. Mozur, Mystery of Motive for a Ransomware Attack: Money, Mayhem or a Message?, New York Times (2017) A7.

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	Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Abbreviation	Comp. Immunol. Microbiol. Infect. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0147-9571
Scope	Immunology Microbiology General Medicine Immunology and Allergy Infectious Diseases General Veterinary