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

Baker PA: Paleoclimate. Trans-Atlantic climate connections. Science 2002, 296:67–68.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bays PM, Husain M: Response to Comment on “Dynamic Shifts of Limited Working Memory Resources in Human Vision.” Science 2009, 323:877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bertotti B, Iess L, Tortora P: A test of general relativity using radio links with the Cassini spacecraft. Nature 2003, 425:374–376.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Akturk A, Wasilko DJ, Wu X, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Qiu J, Luo Z-Q, Reiter KH, Brzovic PS, Klevit RE, et al.: Mechanism of phosphoribosyl-ubiquitination mediated by a single Legionella effector. Nature 2018, 557:729–733.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stokes G: A Practical Guide to the Wiring Regulations. Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Baglieri E, Karmarkar U (Eds): Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater? Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Reyes M, Shahim K, Jürgens P: Computational Image-Guided Technologies in Cranio-Maxillofacial Soft Tissue Planning and Simulation. In Computer-Assisted Musculoskeletal Surgery: Thinking and Executing in 3D. Edited by Ritacco LE, Milano FE, Chao E. Springer International Publishing; 2016:43–56.

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

Fang J: Polar Bears are Moving North Where There’s Year-Round Sea Ice. 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: Aviation and the Environment: Results From a Survey of the Nation’s 50 Busiest Commercial Service Airports. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson JM: Service learning: Providing the building blocks for a socially responsible nursing role. 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

Walsh MW: Car Insurers Facing Rush Of Claims After Storm. New York Times 2017,

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