How to format your references using the Molecular Immunology citation style

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

Lee, R., 2011. The outlook for population growth. Science 333, 569–573.

A journal article with 2 authors

Over, H., Seitsonen, A.P., 2002. Surface chemistry. Oxidation of metal surfaces. Science 297, 2003–2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moyen, J.-F., Stevens, G., Kisters, A., 2006. Record of mid-Archaean subduction from metamorphism in the Barberton terrain, South Africa. Nature 442, 559–562.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shadwick, E.H., Trull, T.W., Thomas, H., Gibson, J.A.E., 2013. Vulnerability of polar oceans to anthropogenic acidification: comparison of arctic and antarctic seasonal cycles. Sci. Rep. 3, 2339.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keiser, G., 2006. FTTX Concepts and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bieger, J., Goertzel, B., Potapov, A. (Eds.), 2015. Artificial General Intelligence: 8th International Conference, AGI 2015, AGI 2015, Berlin, Germany, July 22-25, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tuchscherer, A., 2005. Dynamical Configuration of Transparent Optical Telecommunication Networks, in: Fleuren, H., Hertog, D.D., Kort, P. (Eds.), Operations Research Proceedings 2004: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR). Jointly Organized with the Netherlands Society for Operations Research (NGB) Tilburg, September 1–3, 2004, Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–32.

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 Molecular Immunology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. Scientists Levitate Large Sphere Using Ultrasound [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-levitate-large-sphere-using-ultrasound/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. Railroad Safety: Reporting Time Frames and Results of Post-Accident Drug Tests (No. RCED-88-120). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Van Name, J., 2013. Boolean Partition Algebras (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Otis, J., 2017. Raising Grandchildren in a Home That’s Brimming With Love, and Open to All. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lee, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lee, 2011; Over and Seitsonen, 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Over and Seitsonen, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Shadwick et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Immunology
Abbreviation	Mol. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0161-5890
Scope	Molecular Biology Immunology