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

Hayflick L (2000) The future of ageing. Nature 408:267–269

A journal article with 2 authors

Insel TR, Cuthbert BN (2015) Medicine. Brain disorders? Precisely. Science 348:499–500

A journal article with 3 authors

Aldaye FA, Palmer AL, Sleiman HF (2008) Assembling materials with DNA as the guide. Science 321:1795–1799

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gordon JR, Goodman MH, Potter MF, Haynes KF (2014) Population variation in and selection for resistance to pyrethroid-neonicotinoid insecticides in the bed bug. Sci Rep 4:3836

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bard J, Kovarik VJ Jr (2007) Software Defined Radio. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Dupas C, Houdy P, Lahmani M (2007) Nanoscience: Nanotechnologies and Nanophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Pascual SIP (2009) Phenotype Variations in Early Onset Pompe Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment Results with Myozyme®. In: Espinós C, Felipo V, Palau F (eds) Inherited Neuromuscular Diseases: Translation from Pathomechanisms to Therapies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 39–46

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

Luntz S (2015) Eclipsing Binary Could Be A Supernova Model. In: IFLScience. 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 (1983) Opportunities for Improving the Management of DOD Computer Systems. 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

Bombard B (2012) Literature circles book club for science and language arts. 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

Sisario B (2016) Beyoncé, With 9 Grammy Nods, Will Face Off Against Adele. New York Times C1

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