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

Moazed D. Small RNAs in transcriptional gene silencing and genome defence. Nature 2009; 457:413–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elbert T, Heim S. A light and a dark side. Nature 2001; 411:139.

A journal article with 3 authors

Perrachione TK, Del Tufo SN, Gabrieli JDE. Human voice recognition depends on language ability. Science 2011; 333:595.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Park I-H, Zhao R, West JA, Yabuuchi A, Huo H, Ince TA, Lerou PH, Lensch MW, Daley GQ. Reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotency with defined factors. Nature 2008; 451:141–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’Homme R. Flows and Chemical Reactions in Homogeneous Mixtures. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Wang LK, Hung Y-T, Shammas NK, editors. Advanced Physicochemical Treatment Technologies. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Grim KD, Rosen T. Inflammatory Disorders with Unique Clinical Features. In: Alexis AF, Barbosa VH, editors. Skin of Color: A Practical Guide to Dermatologic Diagnosis and Treatment. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. page 45–90.

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

Andrew E. 2014, The Year That Was: Science + Technology [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/2014-year-was-science-technology/

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. ADP Budget: Potential Reductions to the Department of the Air Force’s Budget Request. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tang J. Understanding the college experiences of Cambodian American students. 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

Johnson G. The Enduring Afterglow. New York Times2011; :WK1.

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
Scope

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