How to format your references using the Mucosal Immunology citation style

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

Meyer, G. Playing the field. Science 348, 938 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, J. L. & Sherman, D. H. Biochemistry. An enzyme assembly line. Science 321, 1304–1305 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

Richard, D., Clanet, C. & Quéré, D. Contact time of a bouncing drop. Nature 417, 811 (2002).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Bejerano, G. et al. A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon. Nature 441, 87–90 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips, J. J., Brantley, W. & Phillips, P. P. Project Management ROI. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011).

An edited book

O¿Donnell, R. W. Intellectual Property in the Food Technology Industry: Protecting Your Innovation. (Springer, New York, NY, 2008).

A chapter in an edited book

Farkas, J. & Jármai, K. Tubular Trusses. In Optimum Design of Steel Structures (Jármai, K.) 61–107 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013).

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 Mucosal Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Rhythm On The Brain, And Why We Can’t Stop Dancing. IFLScience (2016).

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 Statistical Agencies: Proposed Consolidation and Data Sharing Legislation. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bergemann, E. Exploring psychotherapist empathic attunement from a psychoneurobiological perspective: Is empathy enhanced by yoga and meditation? (2009).

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

Rothenberg, B. After Stand on Gays, New Name Urged for Margaret Court Arena. New York Times B9 (2017).

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	Mucosal Immunology
Abbreviation	Mucosal Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1933-0219
ISSN (online)	1935-3456
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy