How to format your references using the Seminars in Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seminars in 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

[1]

D. Goldston, Hazy reasoning behind clean air, Nature 452 (2008) 519.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W.H. Schlesinger, J. Lichter, Limited carbon storage in soil and litter of experimental forest plots under increased atmospheric CO2, Nature 411 (2001) 466–469.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. James, C.P. Simmons, A.A. James, Ecology. Mosquito trials, Science 334 (2011) 771–772.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Hwang, D.Y. Kim, S.M. Jo, V. Armel, D.R. MacFarlane, D. Kim, S.-Y. Jang, Highly efficient plastic crystal ionic conductors for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3520.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Bailly, Materials and Structures under Shock and Impact, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

F.M.T. Brazier, K. Nieuwenhuis, G. Pavlin, M. Warnier, C. Badica, eds., Intelligent Distributed Computing V: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2011, Delft, The Netherlands – October 2011, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Stanta, Tissue Heterogeneity as a Pre-analytical Source of Variability, in: M. Dietel, C. Wittekind, G. Bussolati, M. von Winterfeld (Eds.), Pre-Analytics of Pathological Specimens in Oncology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 35–43.

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 Seminars in Immunology.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Could a Shield of Hot Air Block Shockwaves?, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, U.S. International Energy Research and Development Program Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.O. Zanulabe Din, Engineered Synchrony of Bacterial Lysis and its Applications, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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

[1]

F. Kelly, MEMORIAL MUSEUM TO HONOR STATE POLICE, New York Times (1985) 11NJ6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Seminars in Immunology
Abbreviation	Semin. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1044-5323
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy