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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Balmford, A. (2013). Ecology. Pollution, politics, and vultures. Science 339, 653–654.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long, M.A., and Fee, M.S. (2008). Using temperature to analyse temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathway. Nature 456, 189–194.

A journal article with 3 authors

López, C.A., de Vries, A.H., and Marrink, S.J. (2013). Computational microscopy of cyclodextrin mediated cholesterol extraction from lipid model membranes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2071.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Levison, H.F., Bottke, W.F., Gounelle, M., Morbidelli, A., Nesvorný, D., and Tsiganis, K. (2009). Contamination of the asteroid belt by primordial trans-Neptunian objects. Nature 460, 364–366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, R.C.-H. (2008). RF Circuit Design (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Bertolotto, M., Ray, C., and Li, X. eds. (2008). Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 8th International Symposium, W2GIS 2008, Shanghai, China, December 11-12, 2008. Proceedings (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Bezdek, K. (2013). On Minimal Tilings with Convex Cells Each Containing a Unit Ball. In Discrete Geometry and Optimization Fields Institute Communications., K. Bezdek, A. Deza, and Y. Ye, eds. (Springer International Publishing), pp. 45–54.

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

Carpineti, A. (2017). Gravitational Lenses Let Astronomers See Brightest Galaxies Like Never Before. IFLScience.

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 (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: State Department Needs To Make Fundamental Improvements To Its Year 2000 Program (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

Lytle, S.C. (2010). Giving voice to the past: New editions of select repertoire of the 26th Regiment Band, North Carolina troops, C.S.A.

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

Hartocollis, A. (2014). Doctor Who Worked on Rivers Steps Down From Post at Medical Clinic. New York Times, A15.

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