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

Bonetta L. Protein purification: target identification. Nature. 2006;439(7079):1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weiss BP, Tikoo SM. The lunar dynamo. Science. 2014;346(6214):1246753.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reimand J, Wagih O, Bader GD. The mutational landscape of phosphorylation signaling in cancer. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2651.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Christopherson KW 2nd, Hangoc G, Mantel CR, Broxmeyer HE. Modulation of hematopoietic stem cell homing and engraftment by CD26. Science. 2004;305(5686):1000-1003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yeakley CL, Fiebrich JD. Collaborative Process Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

Sethi SP. Inventory and Supply Chain Management with Forecast Updates. Vol 81. (Yan H, Zhang H, eds.). Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Slack K. The Role of Mining in the Economies of Developing Countries: Time for a New Approach. In: Richards J, ed. Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World. Springer; 2010:75-90.

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

Andrew D. Is The Red Wine Compound Resveratrol A Miracle Drug For Infertility and Ageing? IFLScience. October 21, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/is-the-red-wine-compound-resveratrol-a-miracle-drug-for-infertility-and-ageing/

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. GAO ADP Data Lines: Issue No. 4. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peterson GG. Long-Term Effects of Care Management on Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Medicare Costs Among Chronically-Ill Medicare Beneficiaries. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2013.

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

Walsh MW. Suffolk Cites Emergency In Finances. New York Times. March 7, 2012:A24.

In-text citations

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

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