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

Rose, F. de Meetings that changed the world: Paris 1951: The birth of CERN. Nature 455, 174–175 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

Pacheco-Vázquez, F. & Dorbolo, S. Rebound of a confined granular material: combination of a bouncing ball and a granular damper. Sci. Rep. 3, 2158 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

Gottfried, J. A., O’Doherty, J. & Dolan, R. J. Encoding predictive reward value in human amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex. Science 301, 1104–1107 (2003).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Roger, T., Heitz, J. J. F., Wright, E. M. & Faccio, D. Non-collinear interaction of photons with orbital angular momentum. Sci. Rep. 3, 3491 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer, A. & Legeard, B. Model-Based Testing Essentials. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2016).

An edited book

David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems. 3, (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

Strauser, E. et al. Semantic Map for Structural Bioinformatics: Enhanced Service Discovery Based on High Level Concept Ontology. In Resource Discovery: Third International Workshop, RED 2010, Paris, France, November 5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Lacroix, Z. & Vidal, M. E.) 57–70 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012).

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

O`Callaghan, J. “Heat Bombs” May Explain Why The Sun’s Outer Atmosphere Is So Hot. IFLScience (2016).at <https://www.iflscience.com/space/heat-bombs-may-explain-why-the-suns-outer-atmosphere-is-so-hot/>

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 Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee: IRAC Representatives Effectively Coordinate Federal Spectrum but Lack Seniority to Advise on Contentious Policy Issues. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wiggins, B. B. Using Induced Signals to Develop a Position-Sensitive Microchannel Plate Detector. (2017).

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

Austen, I. & Chapman, M. M. A Slow Thaw for the Great Lakes. New York Times B1 (2015).

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