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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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
1.
Nowlan W. Human genetics. A rational view of insurance and genetic discrimination. Science 2002; 297:195–6.
A journal article with 2 authors
1.
Johnson KA, Ashcroft NW. Structure and bandgap closure in dense hydrogen. Nature 2000; 403:632–5.
A journal article with 3 authors
1.
Sun S, Ting C-T, Wu C-I. The normal function of a speciation gene, Odysseus, and its hybrid sterility effect. Science 2004; 305:81–3.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
1.
Al-Sawaf O, Fragoulis A, Rosen C, Kan YW, Sönmez TT, Pufe T, Wruck CJ. Nrf2 protects against TWEAK-mediated skeletal muscle wasting. Sci Rep 2014; 4:3625.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Millon T, Grossman S. Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.
An edited book
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Specht L, Yahalom J, editors. Radiotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.
A chapter in an edited book
1.
Kruse T, Sun EW. News Trader, Liquidity and Transaction Cost. In: Dufrénot G, Jawadi F, Louhichi W, editors. Market Microstructure and Nonlinear Dynamics: Keeping Financial Crisis in Context. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. page 95–127.

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
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O`Callaghan J. Proxima b, The Closest Exoplanet To Earth, Could Be Habitable. 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
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Government Accountability Office. International Aviation: Competition Issues in the U.S.-U.K. Market. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Cho Y. Chinese restaurant business and Taiwanese pentecostalism in Southern California. 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
1.
Grynbaum MM. CNN Fires Trump Booster Over Use of a Nazi Phrase. New York Times2017; :B3.

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 titleImmunomics
ISSN (online)2324-9633
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