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

Stafford, Ned. 2006. Angling saxons. Nature 441: 931.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goonetilleke, Nilu, and Andrew J. McMichael. 2013. Immunology. Antigen processing takes a new direction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340: 937–938.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sazonov, S. Yu, A. A. Lutovinov, and R. A. Sunyaev. 2004. An apparently normal gamma-ray burst with an unusually low luminosity. Nature 430: 646–648.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang, Shenyuan L., Ying Yu, Jack Roos, J. Ashot Kozak, Thomas J. Deerinck, Mark H. Ellisman, Kenneth A. Stauderman, and Michael D. Cahalan. 2005. STIM1 is a Ca2+ sensor that activates CRAC channels and migrates from the Ca2+ store to the plasma membrane. Nature 437: 902–905.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jain, Ravi K., Harry C. Triandis, and Cynthia Wagner Weick. 2010. Managing Research, Development, and Innovation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Finkbeiner, Matthias, ed. 2016. Special Types of Life Cycle Assessment. LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Orton, David C. 2016. Archaeology as a Tool for Understanding Past Marine Resource Use and Its Impact. In Perspectives on Oceans Past, ed. Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez and Bo Poulsen, 47–69. 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

Luntz, Stephen. 2016. Three Stars Seen Forming From One Disk. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 3.

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. 1991. Titan IV Launch Vehicle: Restructured Program Could Reduce Fiscal Year 1992 Funding Needs. NSIAD-91-271. 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

Marcus, Jackelyn. 2012. Voices of survival: Opera in Theresienstadt. Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Van Gelder, Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by Lawrence. 2005. Arts, Briefly; A New Yorker Clone Folds. New York Times, January 21.

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