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

Jernelöv A. How to defend against future oil spills. Nature 2010; 466:182–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayraktar OA, Doe CQ. Combinatorial temporal patterning in progenitors expands neural diversity. Nature 2013; 498:449–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Staal M, Meysman FJR, Stal LJ. Temperature excludes N2-fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria in the tropical oceans. Nature 2003; 425:504–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gao X-Y, Huang J-O, Hu Y-F, Gu Y, Zhu S-Z, Huang K-B, Chen J-Y, Pan S-Y. Combination of mild hypothermia with neuroprotectants has greater neuroprotective effects during oxygen-glucose deprivation and reoxygenation-mediated neuronal injury. Sci Rep 2014; 4:7091.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight JG. Environmental Analysis and Technology for the Refining Industry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Navarra A, Tubiana L, editors. Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Volume 2: Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services and People. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Walber T, Scherp A, Staab S. Can You See It? Two Novel Eye-Tracking-Based Measures for Assigning Tags to Image Regions. In: Li S, Saddik AE, Wang M, Mei T, Sebe N, Yan S, Hong R, Gurrin C, editors. Advances in Multimedia Modeling: 19th International Conference, MMM 2013, Huangshan, China, January 7-9, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. page 36–46.

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

Davis J. Science May Have Solved Why Taking Deep Breaths Calms You Down. IFLScience2017;

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. Emergency Preparedness: Current Emergency Alert System Has Limitations, and Development of a New Integrated System Will Be Challenging. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Koner KM. The development and validation of an instrument to measure wind ensemble error detection skills among instrumental music educators. 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

Koblin J. Some Live Colbert Shows Planned After Debates. New York Times2016; :C3.

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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