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. Lovell-Badge R. The future for stem cell research. Nature. 2001;414:88–91.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Goodman S, Kreeger K. Getting organized. Nature. 2003;423:98–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Culley AI, Lang AS, Suttle CA. High diversity of unknown picorna-like viruses in the sea. Nature. 2003;424:1054–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu S-L, Li J, Zhang Z-L, Wang Z-G, Tian Z-Q, Wang G-P, et al. Fast and high-accuracy localization for three-dimensional single-particle tracking. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Pick JB. Geo-Business GIS in the Digital Organization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Batanero C. Research on Teaching and Learning Probability. Chernoff EJ, Engel J, Lee HS, Sánchez E, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lambert M, Naber D. Quick Reference. In: Lambert M, editor. Current Schizophrenia. Heidelberg: Springer Healthcare UK; 2012. p. 157–75.

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. A Handshake In Space Changed US-Russia Relations: How Long Will It Last? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/handshake-space-changed-us-russia-relations-how-long-will-it-last/

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. Information Technology: Assessment of the Department of Commerce’s Report on Workforce Demand and Supply. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Mar. Report No.: HEHS-98-106.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nguyen JR. Staging Vietnamese America: Music and the performance of Vietnamese American identities [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2012.

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. Vecsey G. How Broken Must College Football Be to Fix It? New York Times. 2010 Nov 12;B11.

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

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