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]

Friedberg EC. DNA damage and repair. Nature. 2003;421:436–440.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen P-C, Xu Z-K. Mineral-coated polymer membranes with superhydrophilicity and underwater superoleophobicity for effective oil/water separation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2776.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wohlgemuth S, Ronacher B, Wehner R. Ant odometry in the third dimension. Nature. 2001;411:795–798.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Wang J, Chen L, Li L, et al. Preliminary identification of palaeofloods with the alkane ratio C31/C17 and their potential link to global climate changes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kukushkin A. Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Heber-Katz E, Stocum DL, editors. New Perspectives in Regeneration. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D’Alessio S. Policy Analysis. In: D’Alessio S, editor. Inclusive Education in Italy: A Critical Analysis of the Policy of Integrazione Scolastica. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011. p. 67–81.

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]

Andrew E. ‘Missing Plastic’ In The Oceans Can Be Found Below The Surface [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/missing-plastic-oceans-can-be-found-below-surface/.

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. Health and Safety: Environmental Oversight of Classified Federal Research. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996. Report No.: T-RCED-96-99. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Holman R. Music history pedagogy: Three approaches to teaching a one-semester music history survey course in accordance with the LEAP Initiative [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Otis J. Academy Eases the Angst of Adolescent Refugees. New York Times. 2017 Sep 9;A4.

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