How to format your references using the Immunity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Immunity. 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

Fabian, N. (2015). Economics: support low-carbon investment. Nature 519, 27–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oliveri, P., and Davidson, E.H. (2007). Development. Built to run, not fail. Science 315, 1510–1511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poss, K.D., Wilson, L.G., and Keating, M.T. (2002). Heart regeneration in zebrafish. Science 298, 2188–2190.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bull, M.J., Jolley, K.A., Bray, J.E., Aerts, M., Vandamme, P., Maiden, M.C.J., Marchesi, J.R., and Mahenthiralingam, E. (2014). The domestication of the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus. Sci. Rep. 4, 7202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Takezawa, K. (2005). Introduction to Nonparametric Regression: Takezawa/Introduction (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Lai, X., Gu, D., Jin, B., Wang, Y., and Li, H. eds. (2011). Forensics in Telecommunications, Information, and Multimedia: Third International ICST Conference, e-Forensics 2010, Shanghai, China, November 11-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Ghamri-Doudane, Y. (2013). Towards Urban Vehicular Networking. In Advanced Infocomm Technology: 5th IEEE International Conference, ICAIT 2012, Paris, France, July 25-27, 2012. Revised Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science., V. Guyot, ed. (Springer), pp. 4–4.

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 Immunity.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015). Endangered Mountain Pygmy Possums Born. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/endangered-mountain-pygmy-possums-born/.

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

Government Accountability Office (1999). Federal Communications Commission: Implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Griffin, M.G. (2008). The lived experience of first line managers during planned organizational change: A phenomenological study of one firm in the residential construction industry.

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

Cumming-Bruce, N., and Sengupta, S. (2017). In Greece, China Finds a New Ally Against Criticism of Its Human Rights Record. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Immunity
Abbreviation	Immunity
ISSN (print)	1074-7613
ISSN (online)	1097-4180
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Infectious Diseases