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

Wadman, M. (2002). Power vacuum expands as CDC director resigns. Nature 415, 946.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feld, J.J., and Hoofnagle, J.H. (2005). Mechanism of action of interferon and ribavirin in treatment of hepatitis C. Nature 436, 967–972.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lammert, E., Cleaver, O., and Melton, D. (2001). Induction of pancreatic differentiation by signals from blood vessels. Science 294, 564–567.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Luther, S., Fenton, F.H., Kornreich, B.G., Squires, A., Bittihn, P., Hornung, D., Zabel, M., Flanders, J., Gladuli, A., Campoy, L., et al. (2011). Low-energy control of electrical turbulence in the heart. Nature 475, 235–239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kim, Y.-H. (2010). Sound Propagation (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Grothaus, M. (2011). Taking Your iPhone to the Max, iOS 5 Edition S. Sande and E. Sadun, eds. (Apress).

A chapter in an edited book

Berka, T., and Vajteršic, M. (2014). Dimensionality Reduction for Information Retrieval Using Vector Replacement of Rare Terms. In Data Mining for Service Studies in Big Data., K. Yada, ed. (Springer), pp. 41–60.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). We Now Sort Of Know Why SpaceX’s Rocket Exploded. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-now-sort-of-know-why-spacexs-rocket-exploded/.

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 (1994). Air Force Bombers: Conventional Capabilities of the B-1B Bomber (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

Tuinenga, J.M. (2010). John Corigliano’s Sonata for violin and piano: An analysis of context, structure, and style.

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

Williams, J. (2017). A Love of Science Fiction Collides With a Classic. New York Times, C2.

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