How to format your references using the Critical Reviews in Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Reviews in Immunology (CRI). 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

Michel-Kerjan E. How resilient is your country? Nature. 2012 Nov 22;491(7425):497.

A journal article with 2 authors

Venitt S, Phillips DH. Philip D. Lawley (1927-2011). Nature. 2012 Feb 1;482(7383):36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chaudhari NK, Song MY, Yu JS. Heteroatom-doped highly porous carbon from human urine. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun 9;4:5221.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Podsypanina K, Du YCN, Jechlinger M, Beverly LJ, Hambardzumyan D, Varmus H. Seeding and propagation of untransformed mouse mammary cells in the lung. Science. 2008 Sep 26;321(5897):1841–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rouse WB. Universities as Complex Enterprises. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Pasman HJ, Kirillov IA, editors. Resilience of Cities to Terrorist and other Threats: Learning from 9/11 and further Research Issues. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. XIII, 545 p. (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series Series C: Environmental Security).

A chapter in an edited book

Sehba FA, Friedrich V. Early Events After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In: Fandino J, Marbacher S, Fathi AR, Muroi C, Keller E, editors. Neurovascular Events After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Towards Experimental and Clinical Standardisation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 23–8.

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 Critical Reviews in Immunology.

Blog post

Andrews R. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Can Hickeys Really Cause Some People To Have A Stroke? Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-hickeys-cause-people-to-have-strokes/

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

Government Accountability Office. Quality Management: Scoping Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Dec. Report No.: ACG/OPS-91-1.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peterson K. Development of a facility-specific dietary training program for diet technicians [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Philpott ML. Finding What I Need at the Mall. New York Times. 2017 Mar 4;SR10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Critical Reviews in Immunology
ISSN (print)	1040-8401
ISSN (online)	2162-6472
Scope