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. Watts C. Immunology. The bell tolls for phagosome maturation. Science. 2004;304:976–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mervis J, Holden C. Great expectations on the job front. Science. 2004;304:1829.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mitchell RN, Kilian TM, Evans DAD. Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time. Nature. 2012;482:208–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Isles AR, Baum MJ, Ma D, Keverne EB, Allen ND. Urinary odour preferences in mice. Nature. 2001;409:783–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Blair R, Regenstein JM. Genetic Modification and Food Quality. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Giri PK, Goswami DK, Perumal A, editors. Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Dec 8-10, 2011, Guwahati, India. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Buttyán L, Holczer T, Schaffer P. Spontaneous Cooperation in Multi-domain Sensor Networks. In: Molva R, Tsudik G, Westhoff D, editors. Security and Privacy in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks: Second European Workshop, ESAS 2005, Visegrad, Hungary, July 13-14, 2005 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p. 42–53.

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 Journal of Clinical Immunology.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Nearby Star Escapes Black Hole, But Loses Jupiter-Sized Chunk [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nearby-star-escapes-black-hole-loses-jupiter-sized-chunk/

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. Public Transportation: Federal Role Key to Rural and Tribal Transit. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Jun. Report No.: GAO-14-589.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Russo DA. Cancer: Modeling the distribution of sizes of detectable metastases [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Grynbaum MM, Steel E. Fox News, Pledging New Culture, Ousts Another Symbol of Old One. New York Times. 2017 May 1;A1.

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