How to format your references using the mAbs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for mAbs. 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

Panksepp J. Behavior. Empathy and the laws of affect. Science 2011; 334:1358–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

McCormick C, Ganem D. The kaposin B protein of KSHV activates the p38/MK2 pathway and stabilizes cytokine mRNAs. Science 2005; 307:739–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zikherman J, Parameswaran R, Weiss A. Endogenous antigen tunes the responsiveness of naive B cells but not T cells. Nature 2012; 489:160–4.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Crowther TW, Machmuller MB, Carey JC, Allison SD, Blair JM, Bridgham SD, Burton AJ, Dijkstra FA, Elberling B, Estiarte M, et al. Crowther et al. reply. Nature 2018; 554:E7–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisswanger H. Enzymkinetik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Cai K. Supervisor Localization: A Top-Down Approach to Distributed Control of Discrete-Event Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Emady H, Hapgood K, Smith R. Granulation and Tabletting. In: Merkus HG, Meesters GMH, editors. Production, Handling and Characterization of Particulate Materials. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 107–36.

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 mAbs.

Blog post

Taub B. Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Who Is The Best Superhero [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-may-have-finally-figured-out-who-is-the-best-superhero/

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. [Response to Request for Views on Application of P.L. 99-177 to Teacher Loan Cancellations]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hernandez R. Growth and development of greenhouse vegetable seedlings under supplemental LED lighting. 2013;

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

Eligon J, Nolan K. Angry After Milwaukee Police Shooting, Protesters Turn Against News Media, Too. New York Times2016; :A8.

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	mAbs
Abbreviation	MAbs
ISSN (print)	1942-0862
ISSN (online)	1942-0870
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy