How to format your references using the Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy. 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

Koen D (2005) Nuts and bolts. Soft skills. Nature 435:126

A journal article with 2 authors

Keller CB, Schoene B (2012) Statistical geochemistry reveals disruption in secular lithospheric evolution about 2.5 Gyr ago. Nature 485:490–493

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng G-M, Wu L-A, Xing H-J (2014) Symmetry restoration and quantumness reestablishment. Sci Rep 4:6377

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Meng J, Hu Y, Wang Y, et al (2006) A Mesozoic gliding mammal from northeastern China. Nature 444:889–893

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hampel FR, Ronchetti EM, Rousseeuw PJ, Stahel WA (2005) Robust Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Fröding B (2015) Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic virtue, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Mondal PP, Diaspro A (2014) Quantum Description of Radiation Field and Optical Microscopy. In: Diaspro A (ed) Fundamentals of Fluorescence Microscopy: Exploring Life with Light. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–94

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 Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Ebola Outbreak Has Been Confirmed In The Democratic Republic Of Congo. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ebola-outbreak-has-been-confirmed-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo/. 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 (1998) Student Loans: Limited Information Is Available to Determine How Students’ College Debt Affects Their School and Lifestyle Decisions. 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

Schulz JL (2015) Factors Affecting Prey Availability and Habitat Usage of Wintering Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) in Coastal Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Shpigel B (2016) Jets Look to Restore a Lost Connection. New York Times SP2

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	Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy
Abbreviation	Cancer Immunol. Immunother.
ISSN (print)	0340-7004
ISSN (online)	1432-0851
Scope	Cancer Research Immunology Immunology and Allergy Oncology