How to format your references using the International Immunopharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Immunopharmacology. 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]

R.A. Kerr, GEOPHYSICS: Core Takes a Page From the Sea Floor, Science 290 (2000) 1274b–5b.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Jung, N. Bonini, CREB-binding protein modulates repeat instability in a Drosophila model for polyQ disease, Science 315 (2007) 1857–1859.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V.C. Holmberg, M.G. Panthani, B.A. Korgel, Phase transitions, melting dynamics, and solid-state diffusion in a nano test tube, Science 326 (2009) 405–407.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. DasGupta, A. Kaykas, R.T. Moon, N. Perrimon, Functional genomic analysis of the Wnt-wingless signaling pathway, Science 308 (2005) 826–833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Linder, Thermodynamics and Introductory Statistical Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

C. Andreescu, A. Clenci, eds., Proceedings of the European Automotive Congress EAEC-ESFA 2015, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Pedersen, C. Frier, Predicting Footbridge Response Using Stochastic Load Models, in: A. Cunha (Ed.), Topics in Dynamics of Bridges, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 47–53.

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 International Immunopharmacology.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, Deadly Disease Can “Hide’ From A Tasmanian Devil’s Immune System, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deadly-disease-can-hide-from-a-tasmanian-devils-immune-system/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Review of HEW Guidelines for Acquiring Automatic Data Processing Systems Under the Social Security Act, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.W. Goldstein, Writing in red: The East German Writers Union and the role of literary intellectuals in the German Democratic Republic, 1971-90, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2010.

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]

T. Cowen, Open Markets, but Maybe Not Open Minds, New York Times (2015) BU6.

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	International Immunopharmacology
Abbreviation	Int. Immunopharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1567-5769
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Pharmacology