How to format your references using the Human Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human 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]

J. Ellis, Beyond the standard model with the LHC, Nature 448 (2007) 297–301.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.J. Mojzsis, T.M. Harrison, Origin and significance of Archean quartzose rocks at Akilia, Greenland, Science 298 (2002) 917; discussion 917.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.G. Bick, S.E. Calvo, V.K. Mootha, Evolutionary diversity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter, Science 336 (2012) 886.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Real, M. Peter, A. Trabalza, S. Khan, M.A. Smith, J. Dopp, S.J. Barnes, A. Momoh, A. Strano, E. Volpi, G. Knott, F.J. Livesey, V. De Paola, In vivo modeling of human neuron dynamics and Down syndrome, Science 362 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Bailly, Materials and Structures under Shock and Impact, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

E. Villani, Modelling and Analysis of Hybrid Supervisory Systems: A Petri Net Approach, Springer, London, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Bertoni, R. Folgieri, G. Valentini, Feature Selection Combined with Random Subspace Ensemble for Gene Expression Based Diagnosis of Malignancies, in: B. Apolloni, M. Marinaro, R. Tagliaferri (Eds.), Biological and Artificial Intelligence Environments: 15th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2004, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005: pp. 29–35.

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 Human Immunology.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Mars One Finalist Announces That It’s All A Scam, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/whats-going-mars-one/ (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, Globe Safety Product’s Inquiry Regarding Firefighters Breathing Apparatus Developed for NASA by Scott Aviation Company, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Yildiz, Performance analysis of space-time trellis coded MIMO-OFDM systems, Doctoral dissertation, 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]

B. Rothenberg, Sharapova’s Comeback to Start in Germany, New York Times (2017) B12.

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	Human Immunology
Abbreviation	Hum. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0198-8859
Scope	Immunology General Medicine Immunology and Allergy