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]

C.A. Batt, Materials science. Food pathogen detection, Science 316 (2007) 1579–1580.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Hubbard, J.H. Shaw, Uplift of the Longmen Shan and Tibetan plateau, and the 2008 Wenchuan (M = 7.9) earthquake, Nature 458 (2009) 194–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.G. Pearson, S.W. Parman, G.M. Nowell, A link between large mantle melting events and continent growth seen in osmium isotopes, Nature 449 (2007) 202–205.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Lucht, I.C. Prentice, R.B. Myneni, S. Sitch, P. Friedlingstein, W. Cramer, P. Bousquet, W. Buermann, B. Smith, Climatic control of the high-latitude vegetation greening trend and Pinatubo effect, Science 296 (2002) 1687–1689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.I. Good, Introduction to Statistics Through Resampling Methods and R, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M. Öztürk, Y. Waisel, M.A. Khan, G. Görk, eds., Biosaline Agriculture and Salinity Tolerance in Plants, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Guan, S. Yao, C. Xu, H. Zhang, Design and Implementation of Network User Behaviors Analysis Based on Hadoop for Big Data, in: L. Batten, G. Li, W. Niu, M. Warren (Eds.), Applications and Techniques in Information Security: 5th International Conference, ATIS 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 26-28, 2014. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 44–55.

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. Davis, Researchers Develop 3D-Printed Bone That The Body Can Turn Into The Real Thing, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-develop-3dprinted-bone-that-the-body-can-turn-into-the-real-thing/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Railroad Safety: Accident Trends and FRA Safety Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.E. McAlpine, College students and career: An exploration of vocational anticipatory socialization, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2008.

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]

K. Kelly, M. Haberman, Condemnation For President By a Top Aide, New York Times (2017) A1.

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