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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Schilling G. Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A hundred million points of light. Nature 2000; 407:557.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smetacek V, Cloern JE. Oceans. On phytoplankton trends. Science 2008; 319:1346–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abundo C, Monterola C, Legara EF. Criticality of forcing directions on the fragmentation and resilience of grid networks. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6195.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chen MS, Huber AB, van der Haar ME, Frank M, Schnell L, Spillmann AA, Christ F, Schwab ME. Nogo-A is a myelin-associated neurite outgrowth inhibitor and an antigen for monoclonal antibody IN-1. Nature 2000; 403:434–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes T. Constantine. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Mahrwald R, editor. Enantioselective Organocatalyzed Reactions II: Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation Processes. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Marianecci C, Di Marzio L, Rinaldi F, Esposito S, Carafa M. Niosomes. In: Uchegbu IF, Schätzlein AG, Cheng WP, Lalatsa A, editors. Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. page 65–90.

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 Immunomics.

Blog post

Fang J. New Magnetic Shield Protects Next-Generation Physics Experiments [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-magnetic-shield-protects-next-generation-physics-experiments/

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. Automated Information Systems Security in Federal Civil Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wen J. Moving office document processing into the cloud. 2012;

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

Lee L. Connect the Blocks. New York Times2013; :D3.

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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