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

Dovidio, J. F. Psychology. Racial bias, unspoken but heard. Science 326, 1641–1642 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

Steiner, G. & Salvini-Plawen, L. Acaenoplax--polychaete or mollusc? Nature 414, 601–2; discussion 602 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Yumoto, N., Kim, N. & Burden, S. J. Lrp4 is a retrograde signal for presynaptic differentiation at neuromuscular synapses. Nature 489, 438–442 (2012).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Lu, X., Wu, Z., Zhang, W. & Chen, L. Polarization singularities and orbital angular momentum sidebands from rotational symmetry broken by the Pockels effect. Sci. Rep. 4, 4865 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schiek, B., Rolfes, I. & Siweris, H.-J. Noise in High-Frequency Circuits and Oscillators. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005).

An edited book

Cultural Diversity in the Classroom: A European Comparison. (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2012).

A chapter in an edited book

Cassarini, G. & Ieva, F. Statistical Methods to Study the Representativeness of STEMI Archive. In New Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Organizational Strategies for Acute Coronary Syndromes Patients (Grieco, N., Marzegalli, M. & Paganoni, A. M.) 61–68 (Springer, Milano, 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, D. Scientists Just Discovered A Secret American Manuscript That Was Hidden Under Paint For 500 Years. IFLScience (2016).at <https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-just-discovered-a-secret-american-manuscript-that-was-hidden-under-paint-for-500-years/>

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 Legislation Amending the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chhun, S. Assessing the role of vacuolar trafficking in fifteen candidate env genes at the late endosome to vacuole interface in S. cerevisiae. (2010).

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

Wagner, J. Victory for Morale Precedes an Actual Loss. New York Times SP8 (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