How to format your references using the Expert Review of Clinical Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of Clinical 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]

Sherwood S. Climate science: The Sun and the rain. Nature. 2015;528(7581):200–201.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bundock P, Hooykaas P. An Arabidopsis hAT-like transposase is essential for plant development. Nature. 2005;436(7048):282–284.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Boyd R, Gintis H, Bowles S. Coordinated punishment of defectors sustains cooperation and can proliferate when rare. Science. 2010;328(5978):617–620.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Lee Y-P, Wu Y-J, Lees RM, et al. Internal rotation and spin conversion of CH3OH in solid para-hydrogen. Science. 2006;311(5759):365–368.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cornier J, Owen A, Kwade A, et al. Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Innovation and Production. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Li S. Beginning J2ME: From Novice to Professional. Third Edition. Knudsen J, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Melnikov SP, Sizov AN, Sinyanskii AA, et al. Basic Parameters of Nuclear-Excited Plasma. In: Sinyanskii AA, Sizov AN, Miley GH, editors. Lasers with Nuclear Pumping. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 103–142.

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 Expert Review of Clinical Immunology.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Ancient Burnt Scroll “Virtually Unwrapped” To Reveal The Earliest Copy Of Old Testament Scripture [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-burnt-scroll-virtually-unwrapped-to-reveal-the-earliest-copy-of-old-testament-scripture/.

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Advantages and Disadvantages of Wrap-Up Insurance for Large Construction Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999. Report No.: RCED-99-155. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Schulz JL. Factors Affecting Prey Availability and Habitat Usage of Wintering Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) in Coastal Louisiana [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2015.

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]

Hubbard B, Schmitt E. State Crumbling, ISIS Is Reclaiming Insurgent Roots. New York Times. 2017 Jul 8;A1.

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	Expert Review of Clinical Immunology
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Clin. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1744-666X
ISSN (online)	1744-8409
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy