How to format your references using the Journal of Immunological Methods citation style

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

Donnelly, C.A., 2000. Likely size of the French BSE epidemic. Nature 408, 787–788.

A journal article with 2 authors

Darst, C.R., Cummings, M.E., 2006. Predator learning favours mimicry of a less-toxic model in poison frogs. Nature 440, 208–211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Markos, C., Kubat, I., Bang, O., 2014. Hybrid polymer photonic crystal fiber with integrated chalcogenide glass nanofilms. Sci. Rep. 4, 6057.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nesvorný, D., Bottke, W.F., Jr, Dones, L., Levison, H.F., 2002. The recent breakup of an asteroid in the main-belt region. Nature 417, 720–771.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armstrong, H.A., Brasier, M.D., 2004. Microfossils. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA USA.

An edited book

Hameurlain, A., Küng, J., Wagner, R. (Eds.), 2012. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems V, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Moser, M., Patterson*, C., 2009. The Role of Thrombin in Vascular Development, in: Maragoudakis, M.E., Tsopanoglou, N.E. (Eds.), Thrombin: Physiology and Disease. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 81–92.

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 Immunological Methods.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Watch As The Sun Devours A Comet [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-as-the-sun-devours-a-comet/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 1999. Environmental Protection: Research and Development of Plasma Arc Technology Used to Treat Hazardous Waste (No. NSIAD-99-51R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Henderson, R., 2010. The effect of Interactive Metronome training on sports confidence and putting performance (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon, M., 2012. Coaching The Kayakers On 2 Wheels. New York Times B17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Donnelly, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Darst and Cummings, 2006; Donnelly, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Darst and Cummings, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Nesvorný et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Immunological Methods
Abbreviation	J. Immunol. Methods
ISSN (print)	0022-1759
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy