How to format your references using the Trends in Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in 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

Gregory, R. (2000) Reversing Rorschach. Nature 404, 19

A journal article with 2 authors

Peale, S.J. and Lee, M.H. (2002) A primordial origin of the Laplace relation among the Galilean satellites. Science 298, 593–597

A journal article with 3 authors

Borys, N.J. et al. (2013) Surface plasmon delocalization in silver nanoparticle aggregates revealed by subdiffraction supercontinuum hot spots. Sci. Rep. 3, 2090

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Ma, Y. et al. (2014) Strain-induced quantum spin Hall effect in methyl-substituted germanane GeCH3. Sci. Rep. 4, 7297

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langton, R. (2006) Stability and Control of Aircraft Systems, John Wiley & Sons Ltd

An edited book

Wong, P.C. and Miller-Hance, W.C., eds. (2014) Transesophageal Echocardiography for Congenital Heart Disease, Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Rrenja, A. and Matulevičius, R. (2015) Pattern-Based Security Requirements Derivation from Secure Tropos Models. In The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 8th IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference, PoEM 2015, Valencia, Spain, November 10-12, 2015, Proceedings (Ralyté, J. et al., eds), pp. 59–74, Springer International Publishing

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 Trends in Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014) Dog Brains Process Human Speech In The Same Way We Do. IFLScience. [Online]. [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 (2013) Public Transit: Survey of Public Transit Agency Officials on Contracting Out Public Transit Operations and Other Services (GAO-13-824SP, September 2013), an E-supplement to GAO-13-782, U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Poland, M.C. (2010) New cluster-based routing and multi-channel MAC protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks. 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

Hodara, S. (2016) Art in Plain EnglishNew York Times, WE9

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	Trends in Immunology
Abbreviation	Trends Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1471-4906
ISSN (online)	1471-4981
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy