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

Brooks JR (2015) HYDROLOGY. Water, bound and mobile. Science 349:138–139

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu L, Li B (2014) Low thermal conductivity in ultrathin carbon nanotube (2, 1). Sci Rep 4:4917

A journal article with 3 authors

Bradley RS, Hughes MK, Diaz HF (2003) Climate change. Climate in Medieval time. Science 302:404–405

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hermann JC, Marti-Arbona R, Fedorov AA, et al (2007) Structure-based activity prediction for an enzyme of unknown function. Nature 448:775–779

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clark G (2014) The Making of a World City. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Erchul WP (2010) School Consultation: Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Practice, 3rd edn. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Leung CB, Wang Y (2012) Influences of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese Literacy Instruction. In: Leung CB, Ruan J (eds) Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Chinese Literacy in China. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 49–60

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 Immunogenetics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) Buzz Aldrin Medically Evacuated From South Pole After Becoming Ill During trip. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/buzz-aldrin-medically-evacuated-from-south-pole-after-becoming-ill-during-trip/. 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) Aviation Safety: Changes Needed in FAA’s Service Difficulty Reporting Program. 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

Sutherland CE (2013) Positive deviance during organization change: Researchers’ social construction of expanded university goals. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Detrick B (2017) Busy P Surveys the Paris Party Scene He Defined. New York Times D6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brooks 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Zhu and Li 2014; Brooks 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Li 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hermann et al. 2007)

About the journal

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