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

Hoff K (2010) Behavior. Fairness in modern society. Science 327:1467–1468

A journal article with 2 authors

Say RF, Fuchs G (2010) Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase/phosphatase may be an ancestral gluconeogenic enzyme. Nature 464:1077–1081

A journal article with 3 authors

Long JCS, Loy F, Morgan MG (2015) Policy: Start research on climate engineering. Nature 518:29–31

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Andreux PA, Mouchiroud L, Wang X, et al (2014) A method to identify and validate mitochondrial modulators using mammalian cells and the worm C. elegans. Sci Rep 4:5285

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joglekar AM (2010) Industrial Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bahsoun W, Bose C, Froyland G (2014) Ergodic Theory, Open Dynamics, and Coherent Structures. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Fiori M, Lintas A, Mesrobian S, Villa AEP (2013) Effect of Emotion and Personality on Deviation from Purely Rational Decision-Making. In: Guy TV, Karny M, Wolpert D (eds) Decision Making and Imperfection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 129–161

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

Andrew E (2015) Leonard Nimoy Has Passed Away At Age 83. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/leonard-nimoy-has-passed-away-age-83/. 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 (1977) The Concorde Supersonic Aircraft Trial Entry into Dulles International Airport. 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

Best TF (2014) Evaluation of effectiveness, reproducibility, and repeatability of using dentition for estimating cattle age. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Pilon M (2012) Before Games, Religious Questions. New York Times D1

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