How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical Immunology. 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

1. Bloom DE. 7 billion and counting. Science. 2011;333:562–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Le Goff L, Lecuit T. Developmental biology. Gradient scaling and growth. Science. 2011;331:1141–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Belonoshko AB, Ahuja R, Johansson B. Stability of the body-centred-cubic phase of iron in the Earth’s inner core. Nature. 2003;424:1032–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cha T-L, Zhou BP, Xia W, Wu Y, Yang C-C, Chen C-T, et al. Akt-mediated phosphorylation of EZH2 suppresses methylation of lysine 27 in histone H3. Science. 2005;310:306–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Malhotra G. Chemical Process Simplification. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Shibata Y, Suzuki Y, editors. Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, Present and Future: Tokyo, Japan, November 2014. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nussbaum NL, Shepard KN. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. In: Fletcher-Janzen E, editor. The Neuropsychology of Women. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 1–43.

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 Journal of Clinical Immunology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Researchers Find Association Between Porn Viewing And Less Grey Matter In The Brain [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-find-association-between-porn-viewing-and-less-grey-matter-brain/

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. Transportation Trust Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Mar. Report No.: AIMD-95-95R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Capelli AM. The (Un)Balanced Canon: Re-Visioning Feminist Conceptions of Madness and Transgression [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Sisario B. DJ Khaled Spends A 2nd Week on Top. New York Times. 2017 Jul 10;C3.

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	Journal of Clinical Immunology
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0271-9142
ISSN (online)	1573-2592
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy