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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Izaurralde, Elisa. 2015. GENE REGULATION. Breakers and blockers—miRNAs at work. Science (New York, N.Y.) 349: 380–382.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miltat, J., and A. Thiaville. 2000. MAGNETISM: Magnets Fast and Small. Science (New York, N.Y.) 290: 466–467.

A journal article with 3 authors

Immerzeel, Walter W., Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, and Marc F. P. Bierkens. 2010. Climate change will affect the Asian water towers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 1382–1385.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yamaguchi, Akira, Robert N. Clayton, Toshiko K. Mayeda, Mitsuru Ebihara, Yasuji Oura, Yayoi N. Miura, Hiroshi Haramura, Keiji Misawa, Hideyasu Kojima, and Keisuke Nagao. 2002. A new source of basaltic meteorites inferred from Northwest Africa 011. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 334–336.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bennett, M. K. 1995. Affine and Projective Geometry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zadeh, Lotfi A., Ali M. Abbasov, Ronald R. Yager, Shahnaz N. Shahbazova, and Marek Z. Reformat, ed. 2014. Recent Developments and New Directions in Soft Computing. Vol. 317. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, Xueji, Haifeng Dong, and Yaping Tian. 2015. miRNA Optical Detection. In MicroRNA Detection and Pathological Functions, ed. Haifeng Dong and Yaping Tian, 57–75. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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, Elise. 2015. Six Easy Ways To Tell If That Viral Story Is A Hoax. IFLScience. IFLScience. September 18.

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. 2009. Higher Education: Factors Lenders Consider in Making Lending Decisions for Private Education Loans. GAO-10-86R. 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

Partma, Lauren. 2009. Media: Pretrial publicity and its effects. 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

Sisario, Ben. 2017. Linkin Park Album Is No. 1, Surprisingly. New York Times, May 29.

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