How to format your references using the Journal of Innate Immunity citation style

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

Kenyon CJ. The genetics of ageing. Nature. 2010 Mar;464(7288):504–12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rickman C, Bickmore WA. Transcription. Flashing a light on the spatial organization of transcription. Science. 2013 Aug;341(6146):621–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Labidi J, Cartigny P, Moreira M. Non-chondritic sulphur isotope composition of the terrestrial mantle. Nature. 2013 Sep;501(7466):208–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Russell AF, Langmore NE, Cockburn A, Astheimer LB, Kilner RM. Reduced egg investment can conceal helper effects in cooperatively breeding birds. Science. 2007 Aug;317(5840):941–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolf V. The Years. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

de Voogt P, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 236. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaburaki T. Ocular Involvement. In: Ishigatsubo Y, editor. Behçet’s Disease: From Genetics to Therapies. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015; pp 55–78.

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 Innate Immunity.

Blog post

Andrew D. Engineered Bacteria Are Helping Us Add Memory To Living Computers [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/engineered-bacteria-are-helping-us-add-memory-to-living-computers/

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. Student Loans: Selected Characteristics of Schools in Two Major Federal Loan Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bigelow RW. Perception of Online Legal Education among Recently Retired Law School Faculty. 2017

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

Leland J. Picking Fights, Dropping Names. New York Times. 2017 Mar;MB1.

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 Innate Immunity
Abbreviation	J. Innate Immun.
ISSN (print)	1662-811X
ISSN (online)	1662-8128
Scope	Immunology and Allergy