How to format your references using the Immunogenetics citation style

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

Myneni SCB (2002) Formation of stable chlorinated hydrocarbons in weathering plant material. Science 295:1039–1041

A journal article with 2 authors

Faccenna C, Becker TW (2010) Shaping mobile belts by small-scale convection. Nature 465:602–605

A journal article with 3 authors

Perner J, Mauer MC, Hildenbrand M (2011) Identity: key to children’s understanding of belief. Science 333:474–477

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tacconi LJ, Genzel R, Neri R, et al (2010) High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star-forming galaxies in the young Universe. Nature 463:781–784

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bajpai P (2010) Environmentally Friendly Production of Pulp and Paper. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pisla D, Ceccarelli M, Husty M, Corves B (eds) (2010) New Trends in Mechanism Science: Analysis and Design. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Hon KLE, Leung AKC (2012) Use of Moisturizers in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis. In: Lodén M, Maibach HI (eds) Treatment of Dry Skin Syndrome: The Art and Science of Moisturizers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–73

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 Immunogenetics.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Frog Tongues Act Like Sticky Tape. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/frog-tongues-act-sticky-tape/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1991) Land Management Systems: Extensive Cost Increases and Delays in BLM’s Major Data Base Project. 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

Henry ME (2009) A nutrition education program to change college dorm dwellers’ eating patterns. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kepner T (2016) 7th Inning? Bring In the Closer. New York Times B9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Myneni 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Myneni 2002; Faccenna and Becker 2010).

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

Two authors: (Faccenna and Becker 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tacconi et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Immunogenetics
Abbreviation	Immunogenetics
ISSN (print)	0093-7711
ISSN (online)	1432-1211
Scope	Genetics Immunology