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. Barrangou R. RNA events. Cas9 targeting and the CRISPR revolution. Science. 2014; 344:707–708.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Liu J, Yang W. Water management. Water sustainability for China and beyond. Science. 2012; 337:649–650.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Titus SL, Wells JA, Rhoades LJ. Repairing research integrity. Nature. 2008; 453:980–982.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1. Yang Y, Fu Z, Su Y, Zhang X, Li G, Guo J, Que Y, et al. A cytosolic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase gene, ScG6PDH, plays a positive role in response to various abiotic stresses in sugarcane. Sci. Rep. 2014; 4:7090.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ibe EH. Terrestrial Radiation Effects in ULSI Devices and Electronic Systems. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Falmagne J-C. On Meaningful Scientific Laws. 1st ed. 2015. (Doble C, ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cioffi J, Jagannathan S, Lee W, Zou H, Chowdhery A, Rhee W, Ginis G, et al. Greener Copper with Dynamic Spectrum Management. In: Wang C, ed. AccessNets: Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 15-17, 2008. Revised Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009:62–77.

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. Carpineti A. Physicists Manage To Slow Down Light In A Vacuum. IFLScience. 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicists-slow-down-light-vacuum-twisting-it/ [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. [Comments on FAA Employee’s Claim for Backpay]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Moncur HB. Exploring primary caregivers’ perceptions of the effects of secondhand marijuana smoke on children: A quantitative study. 2014.

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. Stelter B. Waking Up On The Wrong Side Of A Rating War. New York Times. 2013:MM24.

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