How to format your references using the Nature Reviews Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nature Reviews 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Abbott, A. A physical response to architecture. Nature 420, 126 (2002).

A journal article with 2 authors

Boettiger, A. N. & Levine, M. Synchronous and stochastic patterns of gene activation in the Drosophila embryo. Science 325, 471–473 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Azzam, N. A., Hallenbeck, J. M. & Kachar, B. Membrane changes during hibernation. Nature 407, 317–318 (2000).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Keppler, F. et al. Chloromethane release from carbonaceous meteorite affords new insight into Mars lander findings. Sci. Rep. 4, 7010 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schoukens, J., Pintelon, R. & Rolain, Y. Mastering System Identification in 100 Exercises. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012).

An edited book

Aging Hair. (Springer, 2010).

A chapter in an edited book

Sánchez, J., Guinaldo, M. & Dormido, S. Event-Triggered Anticipative Control over Packet-Based Networks. in Asynchronous Control for Networked Systems (eds. Guinaldo Losada, M., Rodríguez Rubio, F. & Dormido Bencomo, S.) 79–110 (Springer International Publishing, 2015).

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 Nature Reviews Immunology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Visible Universe. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-are-two-trillion-galaxies-in-the-visible-universe/ (2017).

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. Bilingual Education: A Necessity That Has Not Been Satisfied. (1976).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wang, X. Inferences on Gamma Distributions: Uncensored and Censored Cases. (University of Louisiana, 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

Sisario, B. Ed Sheeran Holds No. 1 as Drake Inches Up. New York Times C3 (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	Nature Reviews Immunology
Abbreviation	Nat. Rev. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1474-1733
ISSN (online)	1474-1741
Scope