How to format your references using the Journal of Leukocyte Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Leukocyte Biology (JLB). 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

Winnacker E-L. European science. Science. 2002;295:446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anand P, Chandra N. Characterizing the pocketome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and application in rationalizing polypharmacological target selection. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smilkov D, Hidalgo CA, Kocarev L. Beyond network structure: How heterogeneous susceptibility modulates the spread of epidemics. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4795.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stenseth NC, Mysterud A, Ottersen G, et al. Ecological effects of climate fluctuations. Science. 2002;297:1292–1296.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang J, Wang Q. Body Area Communications. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

Munoz R, da Cruz EM, Vetterly CG, et al. (eds). Handbook of Pediatric Cardiovascular Drugs. 2nd ed. 2014. London: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Rapaka S, Mansi T, Georgescu B, et al. LBM-EP: Lattice-Boltzmann Method for Fast Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulation from 3D Images. In: Ayache N, Delingette H, Golland P, et al. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2012: 15th International Conference, Nice, France, October 1-5, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012:33–40.

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 Leukocyte Biology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Enormous Hole In The Universe May Not Be The Only One. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/enormous-hole-universe-may-not-be-only-one/. 2015. Accessed October 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. Space Station: Status of Efforts to Determine Commercial Potential. NSIAD-99-153R, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 30, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cappiello DM. Minding the gap: Western export controls and soviet technology policy during the 1960s. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

Mueller B, Baker AL. Death, Mistrust and Too Few Officers. New York Times, December 31, 2016, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Leukocyte Biology
ISSN (print)	0741-5400
ISSN (online)	1938-3673
Scope