How to format your references using the Immunomics citation style

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

Hejtmancik JF. Ophthalmology: Cataracts dissolved. Nature 2015; 523:540–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chang M, Lingner J. Cell signaling. Tel2 finally tells one story. Science 2008; 320:60–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greiner M, Regal CA, Jin DS. Emergence of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate from a Fermi gas. Nature 2003; 426:537–40.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Carter AP, Clemons WM, Brodersen DE, Morgan-Warren RJ, Wimberly BT, Ramakrishnan V. Functional insights from the structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit and its interactions with antibiotics. Nature 2000; 407:340–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wren C. Concise Guide to Pediatric Arrhythmias. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Gatto L. Hasse-Schmidt Derivations on Grassmann Algebras: With Applications to Vertex Operators. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Okorogbona AOM, Managa LR, Adebola PO, Ngobeni HM, Khosa TB. Salinity and Crop Productivity. In: Lichtfouse E, editor. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews: Volume 17. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. page 89–120.

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 Immunomics.

Blog post

Evans K. You Will Probably Be Stereotyped If You Use These Words [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/you-will-probably-be-stereotyped-if-you-use-these-words/

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. FAA Technical Center: Mission and Role in National Airspace System Plan Implementation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eslava Rios J. Automatic melanoma detection in dermatological images. 2015;

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

Markoff J. Defying Roadblocks, Silicon Valley Tests a Flying Car. New York Times2017; :B1.

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	Immunomics
ISSN (online)	2324-9633
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