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

Tanaka KL (2005) Geology and insolation-driven climatic history of Amazonian north polar materials on Mars. Nature 437:991–994

A journal article with 2 authors

Le Goff L, Lecuit T (2011) Developmental biology. Gradient scaling and growth. Science 331:1141–1142

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhandawat V, Reisert J, Yau K-W (2005) Elementary response of olfactory receptor neurons to odorants. Science 308:1931–1934

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Braun H, Christl M, Rahmstorf S, et al (2005) Possible solar origin of the 1,470-year glacial climate cycle demonstrated in a coupled model. Nature 438:208–211

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee (2007) Positive Displacement Pumps. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Tomar V (2015) Multiscale Characterization of Biological Systems: Spectroscopy and Modeling. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Martinez-de Dios JR, Jimenez-Gonzalez A, de San Bernabe A, Ollero A (2014) Usability Tools. In: Jimenez-Gonzalez A, San Bernabe A de, Ollero A (eds) A Remote Integrated Testbed for Cooperating Objects. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–57

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

Hale T (2016) Elon Musk Thinks There’s A “One In Billions” Chance We Don’t Live In A Computer Simulation. In: IFLScience. 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 (1990) Follow-up National Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services. 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

Johnston JS (2017) Echo in Three Acts: The Lost Historical Subject in (Dis)articulation. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Band Aid. New York Times C8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tanaka 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Tanaka 2005; Le Goff and Lecuit 2011).

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

Two authors: (Le Goff and Lecuit 2011)
Three or more authors: (Braun et al. 2005)

About the journal

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