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

Kassen R. If you want to win the game, you must join in. Nature. 2011;480:153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim J, DeBerardinis RJ. Cancer. Silencing a metabolic oncogene. Science. 2013;340:558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson JJ, Björnmalm M, Caruso F. Multilayer assembly. Technology-driven layer-by-layer assembly of nanofilms. Science. 2015;348:aaa2491.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu G, Seiler H, Wen A, et al. Distinct memory traces for two visual features in the Drosophila brain. Nature. 2006;439:551–556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fischer DJ, Treister NS, Pinto A. Risk Assessment and Oral Diagnostics in Clinical Dentistry. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Papon P, Leblond J, Meijer PHE (eds). The Physics of Phase Transitions: Concepts and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Strauser E, Naveau M, Ménager H, et al. Semantic Map for Structural Bioinformatics: Enhanced Service Discovery Based on High Level Concept Ontology. In: Lacroix Z, Vidal ME (eds) Resource Discovery: Third International Workshop, RED 2010, Paris, France, November 5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012:57–70.

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

Hamilton K. Coffee Won’t Give You Cancer, Unless It’s Very Very Hot, Then It Might. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/coffee-wont-give-you-cancer-unless-its-very-very-hot-then-it-might/. 2016. 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. Impact Aid: Most School Construction Requests Are Unfunded and Outdated. HRD-90-90, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 12, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Herman RL. Servant leadership: A model for organizations desiring a workplace spirituality culture. Doctoral Dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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

Marx L. Two Different Cultures, One Modern Marriage. New York Times, July 14, 2017, ST10.

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