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

Rakic P (2006) Neuroscience. No more cortical neurons for you. Science 313:928–929

A journal article with 2 authors

Abouheif E, Wray GA (2002) Evolution of the gene network underlying wing polyphenism in ants. Science 297:249–252

A journal article with 3 authors

Bai T, Pollard DD, Gao H (2000) Explanation for fracture spacing in layered materials. Nature 403:753–756

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Greenberg AJ, Moran JR, Coyne JA, Wu C-I (2003) Ecological adaptation during incipient speciation revealed by precise gene replacement. Science 302:1754–1757

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gallant BJ (2006) Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Manual. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Potegal M, Stemmler G, Spielberger C (eds) (2010) International Handbook of Anger: Constituent and Concomitant Biological, Psychological, and Social Processes. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Deuter A, Koch H-J (2015) Applying Manufacturing Performance Figures to Measure Software Development Excellence. In: Kobyliński A, Czarnacka-Chrobot B, Świerczek J (eds) Software Measurement: 25th International Workshop on Software Measurement and 10th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, IWSM-Mensura 2015, Kraków, Poland, October 5-7, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 62–77

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

Andrew E (2014) Major Breakthrough Made In Stem Cell Research. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/major-breakthrough-made-stem-cell-research/. 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 (1988) ADP Modernization: FCC’s Automation Planning Is Inadequate. 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

Beasley CA (2010) Investigations of redox-labeled silica and gold nanoparticles in solution and as films on electrodes. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Rothenberg B (2017) Knickers In a Twist Over a Hint Of Color. 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 (Rakic 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Abouheif and Wray 2002; Rakic 2006).

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

Two authors: (Abouheif and Wray 2002)
Three or more authors: (Greenberg et al. 2003)

About the journal

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

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