How to format your references using the Immunobiology citation style

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

Kündig, P., 2006. Chemistry. The future of organic synthesis. Science 314, 430–431.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peacock, E., Garshelis, D.L., 2006. Comment on “On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects” IV. Science 313, 45; author reply 45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, C., Bobisch, C.A., Ho, W., 2009. Visualization of Fermi’s golden rule through imaging of light emission from atomic silver chains. Science 325, 981–985.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fujita, S., Yamanoi, S., Murata, K., Mita, H., Samukawa, T., Nakagawa, T., Sakai, H., Tokita, Y., 2014. A repeatedly refuelable mediated biofuel cell based on a hierarchical porous carbon electrode. Sci. Rep. 4, 4937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2003. Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wei, R. (Ed.), 2016. Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication, Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Kar, S., Datta, D., 2015. Risk Sharing and Rent Sharing in the Labor Market, in: Datta, D. (Ed.), Industrial and Labor Economics: Issues in Developing and Transition Countries, India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 87–105.

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 Immunobiology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017. Hikers Film A Beautiful Spinning Ice Disk On A Frozen River [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hikers-film-a-beautiful-spinning-ice-disk-on-a-frozen-lake/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Problems and Outlook of Small Private Liberal Arts Colleges (No. HRD-78-91). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schluter, K.T., 2013. Hearing words without structure: Subliminal speech priming and the organization of the Moroccan Arabic lexicon (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Schwirtz, M., McKINLEY, J.C., Jr, 2017. Ex-Prisoner Found Stability Before His Deadly Outburst. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kündig, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kündig, 2006; Peacock and Garshelis, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Peacock and Garshelis, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Fujita et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Immunobiology
Abbreviation	Immunobiology
ISSN (print)	0171-2985
Scope	Immunology Hematology Immunology and Allergy