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

Alamaro, M. Water politics must adapt to a warming world. Nature 514, 7 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Viscidi, R. P. & Shah, K. V. Cancer. A skin cancer virus? Science 319, 1049–1050 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

Donlea, J. M., Ramanan, N. & Shaw, P. J. Use-dependent plasticity in clock neurons regulates sleep need in Drosophila. Science 324, 105–108 (2009).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Zeng, B. J. et al. Metallic resist for phase-change lithography. Sci. Rep. 4, 5300 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grimes, R. A. Hacking the Hacker. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017).

An edited book

Mack Scogin Merrill Elam: Knowlton Hall. vol. 6 (Princeton Archit. Press, 2005).

A chapter in an edited book

Kazar, B. M. & Celik, M. Comparing Exact and Approximate SAR Model Solutions. in Spatial AutoRegression (SAR) Model: Parameter Estimation Techniques (ed. Celik, M.) 35–46 (Springer US, 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 Nature Reviews Immunology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. Some Martian Lakes Formed Much Later Than We Expected. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/space/some-martian-lakes-formed-much-later-than-we-expected/ (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. Technology Transfer: Federal Agencies’ Patent Licensing Activities. (1991).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Duan, C. Dynamic Analysis of Dry Friction Path in a Torsional System. (Ohio State University, 2004).

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

Gelles, D., Thomas, L., Jr., Sorkin, A. R. & Kelly, K. Rebellion by Business Leaders Spelled End of Trump Councils. New York Times A1 (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

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