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

Rubin, D.C. (2014). Psychology. How quickly we forget. Science 346, 1058–1059.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richards-Kortum, R., and Oden, M. (2013). Engineering. Devices for low-resource health care. Science 342, 1055–1057.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brummelkamp, T.R., Bernards, R., and Agami, R. (2002). A system for stable expression of short interfering RNAs in mammalian cells. Science 296, 550–553.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bock, H., Gharagozloo-Hubmann, K., Sievert, M., Prisner, T., and Havlas, Z. (2000). Single crystals of an ionic anthracene aggregate with a triplet ground state. Nature 404, 267–269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells, A.R., and Chiang, K. (2017). Monetizing Your Data (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Halpin, T., Nurcan, S., Krogstie, J., Soffer, P., Proper, E., Schmidt, R., and Bider, I. eds. (2011). Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 12th International Conference, BPMDS 2011, and 16th International Conference, EMMSAD 2011, held at CAiSE 2011, London, UK, June 20-21, 2011. Proceedings (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Weltner, K., Schuster, P., Weber, W.J., and Grosjean, J. (2009). Exponential, Logarithmic and Hyperbolic Functions. In Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers: Fundamentals and Interactive Study Guide, W. J. Weber, J. Grosjean, and P. Schuster, eds. (Springer), pp. 69–84.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). How Poo-Sniffing Detective Dogs Can Save Elusive, Rare Gorillas. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-poo-sniffing-detective-dogs-can-save-elusive-rare-gorillas/.

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 (2007). Transportation Security: DHS Efforts to Eliminate Redundant Background Check Investigations (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

Smith, T. (2012). Outsider leadership transitions: A phenomenological study of Army Reserve General Officers.

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

Saslow, L. (2007). 14,000 Sq. Ft., Shady Past, All for Just $8.3 Million. New York Times, 14LI2.

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