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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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
1.
Bowles S. Policies designed for self-interested citizens may undermine “the moral sentiments”: evidence from economic experiments. Science. 2008;320:1605–1609.
A journal article with 2 authors
1.
McCalley CK, Sparks JP. Abiotic gas formation drives nitrogen loss from a desert ecosystem. Science. 2009;326:837–840.
A journal article with 3 authors
1.
Kolodner RD, Cleveland DW, Putnam CD. Cancer. Aneuploidy drives a mutator phenotype in cancer. Science. 2011;333:942–943.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Cao Y, Wang N, Tian H, et al. Perovskite light-emitting diodes based on spontaneously formed submicrometre-scale structures. Nature. 2018;562:249–253.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Center for Chemical Process Safety. Recognizing Catastrophic Incident Warning Signs in the Process Industries. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.
An edited book
1.
Tsihrintzis GA, Damiani E, Virvou M, et al. (eds). Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.
A chapter in an edited book
1.
Ren J. Epidemiological Principles Applied to CER. In: Asche C (ed) Applying Comparative Effectiveness Data to Medical Decision Making: A Practical Guide. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016:53–62.

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
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Andrew E. Archaeologists Believe They May Have Found Queen Nefertiti’s Tomb. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/archaeologists-believes-he-may-have-found-queen-nefertitis-tomb/. 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
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Government Accountability Office. Higher Education: Improved Tax Information Could Help Pay for College. GAO-12-863T, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 25, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Terrell S. How Global Leaders Develop: A Phenomenological Study of Global Leadership Development. Doctoral Dissertation, George Washington University, 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
1.
Blinder A. Pennsylvania Officials Identify Suspect in Ambush at Barracks. New York Times, September 17, 2014, A12.

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