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

Knudsen EI. Instructed learning in the auditory localization pathway of the barn owl. Nature 2002; 417:322–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Picollo A, Pusch M. Chloride/proton antiporter activity of mammalian CLC proteins ClC-4 and ClC-5. Nature 2005; 436:420–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chou C-H, Chuang J-K, Chen F-C. High-performance flexible waveguiding photovoltaics. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2244.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Stallard T, Miller S, Melin H, Lystrup M, Cowley SWH, Bunce EJ, Achilleos N, Dougherty M. Jovian-like aurorae on Saturn. Nature 2008; 453:1083–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paret D. Flexray and its Applications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Kerren A, Purchase HC, Ward MO, editors. Multivariate Network Visualization: Dagstuhl Seminar #13201, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, May 12-17, 2013, Revised Discussions. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Özgen S, Demirekler M. A Fast Elimination Method for Pruning in POMDPs. In: Friedrich G, Helmert M, Wotawa F, editors. KI 2016: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 39th Annual German Conference on AI, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 26-30, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 56–68.

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

Andrew E. Cutting Emissions Through Biofuels Will Lead To Water Shortages – Study. IFLScience2015;

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. Data Center Consolidation: Agencies Making Progress, but Planned Savings Goals Need to Be Established [Reissued on March 4, 2016]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

LeBlanc DC. The relationship between Information Technology project manager personality type and project success. 2008;

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

Kishkovsky S. Muscovites Replace “This Old House” With “Changing Rooms.” New York Times2003; :92.

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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