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

Savage, Neil. 2012. Technology: the taste of things to come. Nature 486: S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rakow, N. A., and K. S. Suslick. 2000. A colorimetric sensor array for odour visualization. Nature 406: 710–713.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feng, Yuanxi, Siliang Zhang, and Xin Huang. 2014. A robust TALENs system for highly efficient mammalian genome editing. Scientific reports 4: 3632.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tanaka, Shiho, Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Michael R. Sawaya, Fei Cai, Sabine Heinhorst, Gordon C. Cannon, and Todd O. Yeates. 2008. Atomic-level models of the bacterial carboxysome shell. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319: 1083–1086.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernando, Anil, Stewart T. Worrall, and Erhan Ekmekcioǧlu. 2013. 3DTV. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cai, Guowei. 2011. Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems. Edited by Ben M. Chen and Tong Heng Lee. Advances in Industrial Control. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bossomaier, Terry, Lionel Barnett, Michael Harré, and Joseph T. Lizier. 2016. Transfer Entropy. In An Introduction to Transfer Entropy: Information Flow in Complex Systems, ed. Lionel Barnett, Michael Harré, and Joseph T. Lizier, 65–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. Gravitational Wave Observatory In Space Will See The Seed Of Supermassive Black Holes. IFLScience. IFLScience. June 28.

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. 1992. Attack Warning: Status of the Survivable Communications Integration System. IMTEC-92-61BR. 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

Rakusin, Lisa L. 2010. Intervening to reduce adolescent substance abuse: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. 2011. A Festival in Red Square For the End of Summer. New York Times, August 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