How to format your references using the Inflammation Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Inflammation Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

1. Klasse PJ. Structural biology. A new bundle of prospects for blocking HIV-1 entry. Science. 2013;341:1347–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Howard J, Hyman AA. Dynamics and mechanics of the microtubule plus end. Nature. 2003;422:753–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Aurelio O, Hall DH, Hobert O. Immunoglobulin-domain proteins required for maintenance of ventral nerve cord organization. Science. 2002;295:686–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Eerenstein W, Morrison FD, Dho J, Blamire MG, Scott JF, Mathur ND. Comment on “Epitaxial BiFeO3 multiferroic thin film heterostructures.” Science. 2005;307:1203; author reply 1203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Arduin P-E, Grundstein M, Rosenthal-Sabroux C. Information and Knowledge System. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Srivastava S, editor. Biomarker Discovery in the Developing World: Dissecting the Pipeline for Meeting the Challenges. New Delhi: Springer India; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Beheshti S-M-R, Benatallah B, Sakr S, Grigori D, Motahari-Nezhad HR, Barukh MC, et al. Business Process Data Analysis. In: Benatallah B, Sakr S, Grigori D, Motahari-Nezhad HR, Barukh MC, Gater A, et al., editors. Process Analytics: Concepts and Techniques for Querying and Analyzing Process Data. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 107–34.

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 Research.

Blog post

1. Evans K. Sleeping In On A Weekend Is Bad For Your Health, Study Finds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/weekend-social-jet-lag-is-bad-for-our-health/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Computer Technology: Air Attack Warning System Cannot Process All Radar Track Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 May. Report No.: IMTEC-91-15.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Caballero Suarez OL. Effects of ion correlations in high density plasmas: Neutrino scattering and transport properties in supernovae and neutron star crusts [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2008.

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. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Referendum In Chechnya. New York Times. 2002 Oct 2;A8.

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 Research
Abbreviation	Inflamm. Res.
ISSN (print)	1023-3830
ISSN (online)	1420-908X
Scope	Immunology Pharmacology