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. Turchin P. Arise ‘cliodynamics’. Nature. 2008; 454:34–35.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Watrin E, Peters J-M. Molecular biology. How and when the genome sticks together. Science. 2007; 317:209–210.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schneider T, Bischoff T, Haug GH. Migrations and dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone. Nature. 2014; 513:45–53.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1. Mundy NI, Badcock NS, Hart T, Scribner K, Janssen K, Nadeau NJ. Conserved genetic basis of a quantitative plumage trait involved in mate choice. Science. 2004; 303:1870–1873.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Jakubith M. Grundoperationen und chemische Reaktionstechnik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 1998.

An edited book

1. Kern-Isberner G, Rödder W, Kulmann F eds. Conditionals, Information, and Inference: International Workshop, WCII 2002, Hagen, Germany, May 13-15, 2002, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Eremeyev VA, Pietraszkiewicz W. Material Symmetry Group and Consistently Reduced Constitutive Equations of the Elastic Cosserat Continuum. In: Altenbach H, Forest S, Krivtsov A, eds. Generalized Continua as Models for Materials: with Multi-scale Effects or Under Multi-field Actions. Advanced Structured Materials. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013:77–90.

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. O`Callaghan J. Human Hands Are More Primitive Than Chimpanzees’. IFLScience. 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/human-hands-could-be-more-primitive-chimps/ [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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Faces Tremendous Challenges in Ensuring That Vital Public Services Are Not Disrupted. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Burnley T. Psychotherapist as Modern-Day Shaman. 2012.

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. Powell M. A Blood Feud, Sanitized for Your Displeasure. New York Times. 2017:D3.

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