How to format your references using the Journal of Immunology and Regenerative Medicine citation style

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

Du Pasquier L. Immunology. Insects diversify one molecule to serve two systems. Science. 2005;309(5742):1826-1827.

A journal article with 2 authors

Olson JW, Maier RJ. Molecular hydrogen as an energy source for Helicobacter pylori. Science. 2002;298(5599):1788-1790.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCulloh KA, Sperry JS, Adler FR. Water transport in plants obeys Murray’s law. Nature. 2003;421(6926):939-942.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brollo MEF, López-Ruiz R, Muraca D, Figueroa SJA, Pirota KR, Knobel M. Compact Ag@Fe3O4 core-shell nanoparticles by means of single-step thermal decomposition reaction. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Snape S. Ancient Egyptian Tombs. Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Chakravarty S, Negi R, eds. Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi. Springer India; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Corbineau P. A Declarative Language for the Coq Proof Assistant. In: Miculan M, Scagnetto I, Honsell F, eds. Types for Proofs and Programs: International Conference, TYPES 2007, Cividale Des Friuli, Italy, May 2-5, 2007 Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2008:69-84.

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 Immunology and Regenerative Medicine.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Bald Eagle Braves Snow Storm To Protect Eggs. IFLScience. March 6, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bald-eagle-covered-snow-while-protecting-eggs/

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. Improving Federal Performance in the Information Age Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1996-98. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Day JP. Semirelativistic Few Body Problems with Matrix Continued Fraction Methods. Doctoral dissertation. 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

Brantley B. She’s Doomed, but No One Is Blameless. New York Times. September 18, 2017:C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Immunology and Regenerative Medicine
ISSN (print)	2468-4988
Scope