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

Griffith CA. Solar system: Not just a storm in a teacup. Nature 2014; 514:40–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kroymann J, Mitchell-Olds T. Epistasis and balanced polymorphism influencing complex trait variation. Nature 2005; 435:95–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Woodruff JD, Irish JL, Camargo SJ. Coastal flooding by tropical cyclones and sea-level rise. Nature 2013; 504:44–52.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Frank KT, Petrie B, Choi JS, Leggett WC. Trophic cascades in a formerly cod-dominated ecosystem. Science 2005; 308:1621–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jamison DC. Perl Programming for Biologists. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Daniilidis K, Maragos P, Paragios N, editors. Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part VI. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnston M, Bennett D, Mason B, Thomson C. Finding Common Ground: Combining Participatory Action Research and Critical Service-Learning to Guide and Manage Projects with Aboriginal Communities. In: Bartleet B-L, Bennett D, Power A, Sunderland N, editors. Engaging First Peoples in Arts-Based Service Learning: Towards Respectful and Mutually Beneficial Educational Practices. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 51–70.

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 mAbs.

Blog post

Hale T. Tortoise Receives A 3D-Printed Shell After It Was Burnt In A Forest Fire [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tortoise-receives-3d-printed-shell-after-it-was-burnt-forest-fire/

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. FAA Facilities: Improved Condition Assessment Methods Could Better Inform Maintenance Decisions and Capital- Planning Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Flamenco E. A financial abuse prevention program for older adults: A grant proposal. 2015;

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

Ortved J. Shifting Focus To Men’s Shoes. New York Times2017; :D2.

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