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]

Osterholm MT. A weapon the world needs. Nature. 2005;435:417–418.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mattick JS, Gagen MJ. Mathematics/computation. Accelerating networks. Science. 2005;307:856–858.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mayberry RI, Lock E, Kazmi H. Linguistic ability and early language exposure. Nature. 2002;417:38.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Smalley R Jr, Ellis MA, Paul J, et al. Space geodetic evidence for rapid strain rates in the New Madrid seismic zone of central USA. Nature. 2005;435:1088–1090.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schorn C, Taylor B. NMR Spectroscopy: Data Acquisition. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Hameurlain A, Liddle SW, Schewe K-D, et al., editors. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 22nd International Conference, DEXA 2011, Toulouse, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chen C, Wang W, Wang X. Efficient Maximum Closeness Centrality Group Identification. In: Cheema MA, Zhang W, Chang L, editors. Databases Theory and Applications: 27th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2016, Sydney, NSW, September 28-29, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 43–55.

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]

Carpineti A. There Is A Gigantic Gas Cloud On A Collision Course With The Milky Way [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-is-a-gigantic-gas-cloud-on-a-collision-course-with-the-milky-way/.

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. Consolidation Loan Borrower Interest Rates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005. Report No.: GAO-05-389R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sutton DL. Alumni perceptions of the role of field education in professional preparation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Sisario B. Verses of Civil Rights Anthem ‘We Shall Overcome’ Are Ruled Not Under Copyright. New York Times. 2017 Sep 9;B5.

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

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