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]

K.W. Caldecott, Molecular biology. Ribose--an internal threat to DNA, Science 343 (2014) 260–261.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Yan, M. Fujita, CATALYSIS. A speedy marriage in supramolecular catalysis, Science 350 (2015) 1165–1166.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.E. Williamson, J.E. Saros, D.W. Schindler, Climate change. Sentinels of change, Science 323 (2009) 887–888.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I.L. Vecchio, A. Perucchi, P. Di Pietro, O. Limaj, U. Schade, Y. Sun, M. Arai, K. Yamaura, S. Lupi, Infrared evidence of a Slater metal-insulator transition in NaOsO₃, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2990.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Yao, S. Liu, Ultrasonic Technology for Desiccant Regeneration, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

J.L. García Alcaraz, Just-in-Time Elements and Benefits, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Miller, Californium-252 as a Neutron Source for BNCT, in: W. Sauerwein, A. Wittig, R. Moss, Y. Nakagawa (Eds.), Neutron Capture Therapy: Principles and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 69–74.

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]

J. Fang, 3D Printed Device Detoxifies Blood Like a Liver, IFLScience (2014).

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, ADP Systems: Examinations of Non-Federal Hospital Information Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Canan, Action Research Study on the Gradual Release of Responsibility, Critical Thinking Skills and Use of Intertextuality in a Midwest Suburban High School Setting, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2016.

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]

G.G. Gustines, GRAPHIC BOOKS; Picture This: Graphic Excitement, New York Times (2010) C33.

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