How to format your references using the Inflammation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Inflammation. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Raymond, Charles F. 2002. Glaciology. Ice sheets on the move. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298: 2147–2148.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, J., and T. M. Swager. 2001. Control of conformational and interpolymer effects in conjugated polymers. Nature 411: 1030–1034.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma, Li, Julie Teruya-Feldstein, and Robert A. Weinberg. 2007. Tumour invasion and metastasis initiated by microRNA-10b in breast cancer. Nature 449: 682–688.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Capito, Ramille M., Helena S. Azevedo, Yuri S. Velichko, Alvaro Mata, and Samuel I. Stupp. 2008. Self-assembly of large and small molecules into hierarchically ordered sacs and membranes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319: 1812–1816.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Basener, William F. 2006. Topology and Its Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hartlep, Nicholas D., and Cleveland Hayes, ed. 2016. Unhooking from Whiteness: Resisting the Esprit de Corps. Constructing Knowledge, Curriculum Studies in Action. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Thatcher, Robert W. 2010. Higher-Order Network Reworking – New Findings. In The Developmental Relations among Mind, Brain and Education: Essays in Honor of Robbie Case, ed. Michel Ferrari and Ljiljana Vuletic, 83–104. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Inflammation.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2017. Pollution In The Arctic Is So Bad, Polar Bear Cubs Are Feeding On Contaminated Mothers’ Milk. IFLScience. IFLScience. January 7.

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. 1976. GAO and Federal Government ADP Procurement. 100060. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Keith, Allegra. 2017. Engagement and Temporary Teams: Considerations for Value Engineering Study Teams and Facilitators. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Branch, John. 2017. Thinking About the Future in a Place Where Lives Ended. New York Times, October 9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Inflammation
Abbreviation	Inflammation
ISSN (print)	0360-3997
ISSN (online)	1573-2576
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy