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. Sanderson K. Structure: Artificial armour. Nature. 2015;519:S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bezanilla F, Perozo E. Structural biology. Force and voltage sensors in one structure. Science. 2002;298:1562–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kortenkamp SJ, Wetherill GW, Inaba S. Runaway growth of planetary embryos facilitated by massive bodies in a protoplanetary disk. Science. 2001;293:1127–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yoon J, Jo S, Chun IS, Jung I, Kim H-S, Meitl M, et al. GaAs photovoltaics and optoelectronics using releasable multilayer epitaxial assemblies. Nature. 2010;465:329–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Graham L. Internal Control Audit and Compliance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Kim SH, editor. Radiology Illustrated: Gynecologic Imaging. 2nd ed. 2012. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Choi J-U. Familial Moyamoya Disease. In: Cho B-K, Tominaga T, editors. Moyamoya Disease Update. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2010. p. 35–7.

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. World’s First Genetically Modified Human Embryo Raises Ethical Concerns [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/world-s-first-genetically-modified-human-embryo-raises-ethical-concerns/

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. Query Regarding Department of Education Regulations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Feb. Report No.: B-210733.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Alexander BC. A descriptive study of intercollegiate athletics in Mississippi’s public community and junior colleges [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State 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

1. Hollander S. History in the Bronx Includes Naismith and Ali. New York Times. 2002 Dec 8;814.

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

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