How to format your references using the Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research (JICR). 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

Korenaga J. Comment on “Intermittent Plate Tectonics?” Science 2008;320(5881):1291; author reply 1291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Harrison SA and Tong F. Decoding Reveals the Contents of Visual Working Memory in Early Visual Areas. Nature 2009;458(7238):632–635.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hillenbrand R, Taubner T and Keilmann F. Phonon-Enhanced Light Matter Interaction at the Nanometre Scale. Nature 2002;418(6894):159–162.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Saiz-Lopez A, Mahajan AS, Salmon RA, et al. Boundary Layer Halogens in Coastal Antarctica. Science 2007;317(5836):348–351.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michaelian KH. Photoacoustic Infrared Spectroscopy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2005.

An edited book

Morava E, Baumgartner M, Patterson M, et al., (eds). JIMD Reports, Volume 30. 1st ed. 2016. JIMD Reports. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Wong PYH and Gibbons J. A Process-Algebraic Approach to Workflow Specification and Refinement. In: Software Composition: 6th International Symposium, SC 2007, Braga, Portugal, March 24-25, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. (Lumpe M and Vanderperren W. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2007; pp. 51–65.

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 Interferon and Cytokine Research.

Blog post

Evans K. To Save Its Birds, New Zealand Plans To Kill All Its Rodents. IFLScience; 2017. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Motor Carriers: Better Information Needed to Assess Effectiveness and Efficiency of Safety Interventions. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Austin JH. Performing the Past: Two Pageant Traditions in Nauvoo, Illinois. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University: Bloomington, IN; 2015.

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. Valentine in Boston? That’s Entertainment. New York Times 2011;B17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Korenaga, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Harrison and Tong, 2009; Korenaga, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Harrison and Tong, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Saiz-Lopez et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research
ISSN (print)	1079-9907
ISSN (online)	1557-7465
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