How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in 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

Hartnoll S: Physics. Stringing together a solid state. Science 2008, 322:1639–1640.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulain AJ, Barkay T: Environmental science. Cracking the mercury methylation code. Science 2013, 339:1280–1281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jönsson TJ, Johnson LC, Lowther WT: Structure of the sulphiredoxin-peroxiredoxin complex reveals an essential repair embrace. Nature 2008, 451:98–101.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gamo F-J, Sanz LM, Vidal J, de Cozar C, Alvarez E, Lavandera J-L, Vanderwall DE, Green DVS, Kumar V, Hasan S, et al.: Thousands of chemical starting points for antimalarial lead identification. Nature 2010, 465:305–310.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perry DE, Haluska MJ: Hiring Greatness. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Block P, Knippers J, Mitra NJ, Wang W (Eds): Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Fugini MG, Maggiolini P, Valles RS: Employment Services in Catalonia. In e-Government and Employment Services: A Case Study in Effectiveness. Edited by Maggiolini P, Valles RS. Springer International Publishing; 2014:37–56.

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 Current Opinion in Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew E: Wedding Bells Or Single Again: Psychology Predicts Where Your Relationship Is Headed. IFLScience 2015,

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: Intercity Passenger Rail: Assessing the Benefits of Increased Federal Funding for Amtrak and High-Speed Passenger Rail Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Helgoe CA: The impact of federal policy on teachers’ use of science manipulatives: A survey of teacher philosophy and practices. 2008,

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

Vecsey G: Rain Stopped, and Weirdness Began. New York Times 2011,

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	Current Opinion in Immunology
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0952-7915
ISSN (online)	1879-0372
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy