How to format your references using the European Journal of Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of 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. Maunz P. Quantum physics: gentle measurement. Nature. 2011; 475:180–181.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pyenson ND, Pyenson L. Treating medieval manuscripts as fossils. Science. 2005; 309:698–701; author reply 698-701.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Richardson AR, Libby SJ, Fang FC. A nitric oxide-inducible lactate dehydrogenase enables Staphylococcus aureus to resist innate immunity. Science. 2008; 319:1672–1676.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1. Lemche E, Giampietro VP, Brammer MJ, Surguladze SA, Williams SCR, Phillips ML. Somatization severity associated with postero-medial complex structures. Sci. Rep. 2013; 3:1032.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bayuk JL, Healey J, Rohmeyer P, Sachs MH, Schmidt J, Weiss J. Cyber Security Policy Guidebook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Garcia-Alfaro J, Lafourcade P eds. Foundations and Practice of Security: 4th Canada-France MITACS Workshop, FPS 2011, Paris, France, May 12-13, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hooper CJ, Neves B, Bordea G. A Disciplinary Analysis of Internet Science. In: Tiropanis T, Vakali A, Sartori L, Burnap P, eds. Internet Science: Second International Conference, INSCI 2015, Brussels, Belgium, May 27-29, 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015:63–77.

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 European Journal of Immunology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launches Successfully. IFLScience. 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-successfully/ [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. DOD’s Acquisition of the Composite Health Care System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zacher B. The roles of electrode contacts in organic photovoltaics. 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. Lavin L. I Sang in New York. New York Times. 2017:AR5.

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	European Journal of Immunology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0014-2980
ISSN (online)	1521-4141
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy