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

Eisenstein M. Pregnancy: Delivery from breast cancer. Nature 2012; 485:S54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vivier E, Biron CA. Immunology. A pathogen receptor on natural killer cells. Science 2002; 296:1248–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Choi W-Y, Giraldez AJ, Schier AF. Target protectors reveal dampening and balancing of Nodal agonist and antagonist by miR-430. Science 2007; 318:271–4.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Roberson ED, Scearce-Levie K, Palop JJ, Yan F, Cheng IH, Wu T, Gerstein H, Yu G-Q, Mucke L. Reducing endogenous tau ameliorates amyloid beta-induced deficits in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Science 2007; 316:750–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hickey R. A Dictionary of Varieties of English. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

Pereira F, Machado P, Costa E, Cardoso A, editors. Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2015. Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Conti N, Memoli V. A Specific Profile: The Internet Users. In: Memoli V, editor. Citizens, Europe and the Media: Have New Media made Citizens more Eurosceptical? Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 69–83.

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

Andrew E. From Cucumber To Plague-Causing Bacteria, Scientists Examine DNA In New York Subways. IFLScience2015;

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’s Preboard Passenger Screening Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Horvath CP. Comparison of waste heat driven and electrically driven cooling systems for a high ambient temperature, off-grid application. 2012;

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

Saslow L. Suozzi Offers Plan to Shore Up Aviation Museum. New York Times2006; :LI2.

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