How to format your references using the Journal of Translational Autoimmunity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Translational Autoimmunity. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

C. Sheffield, The new laureate speaks, Nature 404 (2000) 549.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Roberts, T.N. Sherratt, Behaviorial evolution: does similarity breed cooperation?, Nature 418 (2002) 499–500; discussion 500.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Seufert, N. Ramankutty, J.A. Foley, Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture, Nature 485 (2012) 229–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Takeoka, S. Yoshioka, M. Teshima, A. Takano, M. Harun-Ur-Rashid, T. Seki, Structurally coloured secondary particles composed of black and white colloidal particles, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Svensson, Cable-Stayed Bridges, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

P. Collet, M. Courbage, S. Métens, A. Neishtadt, G. Zaslavsky, eds., Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on International Summer School on Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems Cargèse, Corsica 18–30 August 2003, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Rabinovich, N. Alexandrov, Base Station Array Examples for Communication with Vehicles, in: N. Alexandrov (Ed.), Antenna Arrays and Automotive Applications, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 117–138.

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 Translational Autoimmunity.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Sea Slug Steals Photosynthesis Genes From Algae, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sea-slug-steals-photosynthesis-genes-its-algae-meal/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Issues to Be Considered During Deliberations to Reauthorize the Federal-Aid Highway Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.K. Chan, Hyperboloid-Parameterized Description of Diffusive Superconducting-Magnetic Hybrid Systems, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

M. Pilon, After Victory in Heptathlon, ‘Face of Olympics in Britain’ Has a Golden Glow, New York Times (2012) SP3.

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 Translational Autoimmunity
ISSN (print)	2589-9090
Scope