How to format your references using the Immunological Reviews citation style

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

1. Krull, W. A fresh start for European science. Nature 2002; 419: 249–250.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Valbuzzi, A, Yanofsky, C. Inhibition of the B. subtilis regulatory protein TRAP by the TRAP-inhibitory protein, AT. Science 2001; 293: 2057–2059.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schmidt, D, Jiang, Q-X, MacKinnon, R. Phospholipids and the origin of cationic gating charges in voltage sensors. Nature 2006; 444: 775–779.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Munch, E, Launey, ME, Alsem, DH, Saiz, E, Tomsia, AP, Ritchie, RO. Tough, bio-inspired hybrid materials. Science 2008; 322: 1516–1520.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zanotto, ED. Crystals in Glass. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Small-Scale Robotics. From Nano-to-Millimeter-Sized Robotic Systems and Applications: First International Workshop at ICRA 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6, 2013, Revised and Extended Papers. Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Bothma, F.C., Roodt, G., & Bunt-Kokhuis, S. van de (2015). Subjective and Objective Work-Based Identity Consequences. Conceptualising and Measuring Work Identity: South-African Perspectives and Findings, 117–147.

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 Immunological Reviews.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). Play This Game Today To Help Test The Laws Of Quantum Mechanics. IFLScience.

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 (1982). Federal Information Systems Remain Highly Vulnerable to Fraudulent, Wasteful, Abusive, and Illegal Practices.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shah, N. (2017). High Performance Cryptography for Electronic Product Code for Internet of Things Applications.

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

Hodara, S. (2016). At Storm King, Fields of Stars, Rulers and Pipes. New York Times, WE9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1, 2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Immunological Reviews
Abbreviation	Immunol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0105-2896
ISSN (online)	1600-065X
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy