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

Penn RL (2007) Chemistry. Resolving an elusive structure. Science 316:1704–1705

A journal article with 2 authors

Soutoglou E, Misteli T (2008) Activation of the cellular DNA damage response in the absence of DNA lesions. Science 320:1507–1510

A journal article with 3 authors

Jankowski P, McKellar ARW, Szalewicz K (2012) Theory untangles the high-resolution infrared spectrum of the ortho-H2-CO van der Waals complex. Science 336:1147–1150

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li Y, Samad YA, Polychronopoulou K, et al (2014) Highly electrically conductive nanocomposites based on polymer-infused graphene sponges. Sci Rep 4:4652

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li Y (2015) Computer Principles and Design in Verilog HDL. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pinelas S, Došlá Z, Došlý O, Kloeden PE (2016) Differential and Difference Equations with Applications: ICDDEA, Amadora, Portugal, May 2015, Selected Contributions. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Newcomb B, Hannun YA (2015) Sphingolipids as Mediators of Breast Cancer Progression, Metastasis, Response and Resistance to Chemotherapy. In: Hannun YA, Luberto C, Mao C, Obeid LM (eds) Bioactive Sphingolipids in Cancer Biology and Therapy. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 81–106

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 D (2016) Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: A History Of Monsters, From Werewolves To Hippogriffs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-a-history-of-monsters-from-werewolves-to-hippogriffs/. 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 (1993) Federal Research: Aging Federal Laboratories Need Repairs and Upgrades. 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

Immaneni RN (2015) An efficient approach to machine learning based text classification through distributed computing. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kenigsberg B (2016) What Shot Rocky Up Those Steps. New York Times AR12

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

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