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

Chudler, E.H., 2010. SPORE series winner. Resources for anyone interested in the brain. Science 328, 1648–1649.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ortíz-Barrientos, D., Noor, M.A.F., 2005. Evidence for a one-allele assortative mating locus. Science 310, 1467.

A journal article with 3 authors

Janasek, D., Franzke, J., Manz, A., 2006. Scaling and the design of miniaturized chemical-analysis systems. Nature 442, 374–380.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pinto-Tomás, A.A., Anderson, M.A., Suen, G., Stevenson, D.M., Chu, F.S.T., Cleland, W.W., Weimer, P.J., Currie, C.R., 2009. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the fungus gardens of leaf-cutter ants. Science 326, 1120–1123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigo, M., 2014. Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Berke, G., 2005. Killer Lymphocytes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Günther, M., Borchert, B., 2013. Online Banking with NFC-Enabled Bank Card and NFC-Enabled Smartphone, in: Cavallaro, L., Gollmann, D. (Eds.), Information Security Theory and Practice. Security of Mobile and Cyber-Physical Systems: 7th IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop, WISTP 2013, Heraklion, Greece, May 28-30, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 66–81.

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

Luntz, S., 2016. Three Steps Forward For Solar Cell Research [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/three-steps-forward-for-solar-cell-research/ (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, 1981. Observations on Selected Aspects of School Lunch Program Administration (No. 115342). 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

Sheah, J., 2015. Reading Dreams: Representation of Dreams Through Artists’ Books (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Hodara, S., 2016. The City of Lights, When It Was First Lighted. New York Times CT8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chudler, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Chudler, 2010; Ortíz-Barrientos and Noor, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Ortíz-Barrientos and Noor, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Pinto-Tomás et al., 2009)

About the journal

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