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

Schultz, J. C. Biochemical ecology: how plants fight dirty. Nature 416, 267 (2002).

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleinberg, J. & Lawrence, S. Network analysis. The structure of the Web. Science 294, 1849–1850 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Ravishankara, A. R., Daniel, J. S. & Portmann, R. W. Nitrous oxide (N2O): the dominant ozone-depleting substance emitted in the 21st century. Science 326, 123–125 (2009).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Fernández, Á. F. et al. Author Correction: Disruption of the beclin 1-BCL2 autophagy regulatory complex promotes longevity in mice. Nature 561, E30 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Möller, G. Geotechnik. (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012).

An edited book

P3HT Revisited – From Molecular Scale to Solar Cell Devices. 265, (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

Laghi, A., Paolantonio, P., Rengo, M. & Lucchesi, P. Artifacts in MR-Angiography. In MR Angiography of the Body (Neri, E., Cosottini, M. & Caramella, D.) 27–33 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010).

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. Scientists Make Neurons From Human Skin Cells Using Only Chemicals. IFLScience (2015).

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 Airline Deregulation: Changes in Airfares and Service at Four South Carolina Communities. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sripinit, T. How Much Do We Understand About Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy? (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

Williams, J. Australia’s Property Boom Makes Publisher a Target. New York Times B1 (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

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