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

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

Pikitch EK. Oceans. The risks of overfishing. Science 2012; 338: 474–475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ron D, Ito K. Cell biology. A translational pause to localize. Science 2011; 331: 543–544.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin S-C, Lo Y-C, Wu H. Helical assembly in the MyD88-IRAK4-IRAK2 complex in TLR/IL-1R signalling. Nature 2010; 465: 885–890.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Podsypanina K, Du Y-CN, Jechlinger M, Beverly LJ, Hambardzumyan D, Varmus H. Seeding and propagation of untransformed mouse mammary cells in the lung. Science 2008; 321: 1841–1844.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van der Heide P. Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Berg RH, Taylor CG (eds). Cell Biology of Plant Nematode Parasitism. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Gao F, Derguech W, Zaremba M. Extending BPMN 2.0 to Enable Links between Process Models and ARIS Views Modeled with Linked Data. In: Abramowicz W, Maciaszek L, Węcel K, editors. Business Information Systems Workshops: BIS 2011 International Workshops and BPSC International Conference, Poznań, Poland, June 15-17, 2011. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011: 41–52.

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 World Journal of Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Space Geckos May Be Safe After All As Russia Regains Control Of Sex Satellite. IFLScience. 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-geckos-may-be-safe-after-all-russia-regains-control-sex-satellite/

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. Telecommuting: Overview of Challenges Facing Federal Agencies. Washington, DC: 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

Equihua D. The relationship of mental health and family factors to parental involvement in their children’s education among Latina mothers. 2010.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: U.S. Asylum For Blast Survivor. New York Times. 2005; : A6.

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	World Journal of Immunology
ISSN (online)	2219-2824
Scope