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

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

Kumar S (2012) Extinction need not be forever. Nature 492:9

A journal article with 2 authors

Wong W, Barlow H (2000) Tunes and templates. Nature 404:952–953

A journal article with 3 authors

Daw R, Finkelstein J, Helmer M (2012) Chemistry and energy. Nature 488:293

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang X, Qin J, Xue Y, et al (2014) Effect of aspect ratio and surface defects on the photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanorods. Sci Rep 4:4596

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zecchina A, Califano S (2017) The Development of Catalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Dyck VA, Hendrichs J, Robinson AS (2005) Sterile Insect Technique: Principles and Practice in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Lucas S (2014) Using Representation Theorems for Proving Polynomials Non-negative. In: Aranda-Corral GA, Calmet J, Martín-Mateos FJ (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation: 12th International Conference, AISC 2014, Seville, Spain, December 11-13, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 21–33

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 Immunopathology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Boxer Crabs Make Their Anemone “Gloves’” Reproduce Asexually. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/boxer-crabs-make-their-anemone-gloves-reproduce-asexually/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1973) Possible Extended Use of the Federal Telecommunications System by DOD. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wang E (2017) Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Investigation of the Coyote Mountain Shear Zone. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

de la MERCED MJ, Steel E (2017) As Content Makers Rise, Malone Eyes Consolidation. New York Times B1

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 Immunopathology
Abbreviation	Semin. Immunopathol.
ISSN (print)	1863-2297
ISSN (online)	1863-2300
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy