How to format your references using the The Journal of Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of 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. Barker, P. A. 2007. Atmospheric science. The monsoon’s past. Science 316: 1295–1296.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Settele, J., and E. Kühn. 2009. Ecology. Insect conservation. Science 325: 41–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Reich, D. S., F. Mechler, and J. D. Victor. 2001. Independent and redundant information in nearby cortical neurons. Science 294: 2566–2568.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Zhang, H.-X., M. Liu, X. Bu, and J. Zhang. 2014. Zeolitic BIF crystal directly producing noble-metal nanoparticles in its pores for catalysis. Sci. Rep. 4: 3923.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Misra, D. K. 2006. Practical Electromagnetics,. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

1. 2016. Communication and Midterm Elections: Media, Message, and Mobilization, (J. A. Hendricks, and D. Schill, eds). Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cayuela, A. 2016. Vulnerable: To Be Between Life and Death. In Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice A. Masferrer, and E. García-Sánchez, eds. Springer International Publishing, Cham. 63–79.

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 The Journal of Immunology.

Blog post

1. Hale, T. 2017. These Maps Show The Most Popular Porn Searches In Each US State. IFLScience .

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. 1991. NASA Personnel: Shortages of Scientists and Engineers Due to Retirements Unlikely in the 1990s,. 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

1. Rostambeigi, N. 2010. Analyzing the correlates of patients’ adoption of preventative health services: Perceived risk, cost and availability of health care services. .

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. Greenhouse, L. 2008. 3 Defining Opinions. New York Times WK4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	The Journal of Immunology
Abbreviation	J. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0022-1767
ISSN (online)	1550-6606
Scope	Immunology