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. Klasse, P. J. 2013. Structural biology. A new bundle of prospects for blocking HIV-1 entry. Science 341: 1347–1348.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Touma, J. R., and S. Sridhar. 2015. The disruption of multiplanet systems through resonance with a binary orbit. Nature 524: 439–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Roy, M., T. H. Jordan, and J. Pederson. 2009. Colorado Plateau magmatism and uplift by warming of heterogeneous lithosphere. Nature 459: 978–982.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Liu, H., J. Gao, S. R. Lynch, Y. D. Saito, L. Maynard, and E. T. Kool. 2003. A four-base paired genetic helix with expanded size. Science 302: 868–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Knowles, R. 2008. 150 Contractual Problems and their Solutions,. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

1. 2010. Integrated G Proteins Signaling in Plants, (S. Yalovsky, F. Baluška, and A. Jones, eds). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Derksen, H., and G. Kemper. 2015. Invariant Theory of Infinite Groups. In Computational Invariant Theory. Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences G. Kemper, ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 153–264.

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. Andrew, E. 2015. Spectacular Shark Encounters: Fanning’s Close Shave Reminds Us We Share The Ocean. 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. 2014. NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects,. 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. Bavkar, I. N. 2017. In-Node Vehicle Classification and Identification. .

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. David Goodman, J., and N. Schweber. 2015. Gunman Kills One and Wounds Two Near Penn Station. New York Times A19.

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

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