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

Goldstein DB. Growth of genome screening needs debate. Nature. 2011 Aug;476(7358):27–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doudna JA, Cech TR. The chemical repertoire of natural ribozymes. Nature. 2002 Jul;418(6894):222–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith DR, Pendry JB, Wiltshire MCK. Metamaterials and negative refractive index. Science. 2004 Aug;305(5685):788–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dean S, Marchetti R, Kirk K, Matthews KR. A surface transporter family conveys the trypanosome differentiation signal. Nature. 2009 May;459(7244):213–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robertson B, Vignaux GA, Berger CEH. Interpreting Evidence. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Takahashi K, Yoshikawa A, Sandhu A, editors. Wide Bandgap Semiconductors: Fundamental Properties and Modern Photonic and Electronic Devices. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Palm F. Abstracting Query Building for Multi-entity Faceted Browsing. In: Andreasen T, Yager RR, Bulskov H, Christiansen H, Larsen HL, editors. Flexible Query Answering Systems: 8th International Conference, FQAS 2009, Roskilde, Denmark, October 26-28, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009; pp 53–63.

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 E. When Your Body Becomes Your Password, The End Of The Login Is Nigh [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Mar

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. Internet Management: Structured Evaluation Could Help Assess Proposed Transition of Key Domain Name and Other Technical Functions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bhandari S. The Role of System of Systems in Additive Manufacturing. 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

Vecsey G. Yankees Need One Of Those Comebacks. New York Times. 2010 Oct;B17.

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