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

Pincus P. PHASE TRANSITIONS: Y’s and Ends. Science. 2000;290(5495):1307-1308.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ardejani MS, Orner BP. Materials science. Obey the peptide assembly rules. Science. 2013;340(6132):561-562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin J, Balabin IA, Beratan DN. The nature of aqueous tunneling pathways between electron-transfer proteins. Science. 2005;310(5752):1311-1313.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Choi PJ, Cai L, Frieda K, Xie XS. A stochastic single-molecule event triggers phenotype switching of a bacterial cell. Science. 2008;322(5900):442-446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone CA, Zissu A. The Securitization Markets Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Magedanz T, Karmouch A, Pierre S, Venieris I, eds. Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications: Second International Workshop, MATA 2005, Montreal, Canada, October 17-19, 2005. Proceedings. Vol 3744. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Agarwal S, Barik R, Nandivada VK, Shyamasundar RK, Varma P. Static Detection of Place Locality and Elimination of Runtime Checks. In: Ramalingam G, ed. Programming Languages and Systems: 6th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2008, Bangalore, India, December 9-11, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2008:53-74.

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

Luntz S. Insect Bites Reveal Recovery From Dinosaur Extinction. IFLScience.

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. Rehabilitation Services: Administration of Grants to Human Services Training and Research Council. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alexander M. Reasoning Processes Used by Paramedics to Solve Clinical Problems. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2009.

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

Vecsey G. A Foreign Game Looks Very American. New York Times. June 24, 2010:B12.

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

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