How to format your references using the Journal of Inflammation citation style

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

1. Kump LR. Atmospheric science. Tipping pointedly colder. Science. 2009;323:1175–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sakaguchi S, Wing K. Immunology. Damping by depletion. Science. 2011;332:542–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Roselló-Díez A, Ros MA, Torres M. Diffusible signals, not autonomous mechanisms, determine the main proximodistal limb subdivision. Science. 2011;332:1086–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cowan T, Cai W, Purich A, Rotstayn L, England MH. Forcing of anthropogenic aerosols on temperature trends of the sub-thermocline southern Indian Ocean. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Declerck P. Discrete Event Systems in Dioid Algebra and Conventional Algebra. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Sakkas D. Gamete and Embryo Selection: Genomics, Metabolomics and Morphological Assessment. Katz-Jaffe MG, Sueldo CE, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Vasta M. The largest 200 manufacturing firms (1913–2001). In: Giannetti R, Vasta M, editors. Evolution of Italian Enterprises in the 20th Century. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD; 2006. p. 87–110.

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 Inflammation.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Voyager 1: Boldly Going Where No Man-Made Object Has Gone Before [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/voyager-1-boldly-going-where-no-man-made-object-has-gone/

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. Weather Forecasting: Systems Architecture Needed for National Weather Service Modernization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Mar. Report No.: AIMD-94-28.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mueller C. A Multidimensional Perspective of Faculty Mentoring and Job Satisfaction during the First Year of Teaching at Lindenwood University [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood 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. Cooper H. Bush Is Likely to End Term With Iran Issue Unsettled. New York Times. 2008 Jun 21;A10.

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 Inflammation
Abbreviation	J. Inflamm. (Lond.)
ISSN (online)	1476-9255
Scope