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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Eagleman DM (2005) Comment on “The involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex in the experience of regret.” Science 308:1260; author reply 1260

A journal article with 2 authors

Thomassen MJ, Kavuru MS (2014) Lung disease: Treatment by cell transplant. Nature 514:438–440

A journal article with 3 authors

Osborne LC, Lisberger SG, Bialek W (2005) A sensory source for motor variation. Nature 437:412–416

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ritchie KB, Nagelkerken I, James S, Smith GW (2000) A tetrodotoxin-producing marine pathogen. Nature 404:354

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Luo ACJ, Guo Y (2013) Vibro-Impact Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Senani R (2013) Current Feedback Operational Amplifiers and Their Applications. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrari S, Zanotto V (2016) Defining Representative Building Energy Models. In: Zanotto V (ed) Building Energy Performance Assessment in Southern Europe. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61–77

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

Andrew E (2015) Only A Small Portion of Human Genome Drives Evolution. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/only-small-portion-human-genome-drives-evolution/. 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 (2003) Transportation Programs: Opportunities for Oversight and Improved Use of Taxpayer Funds. 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

Russo CA (2014) The potential harms of breast cancer screening: estimating the unnecessary surgical diagnosis of benign breast lesions and its impact on quality and cost among insured women younger than 65 years old. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Crow K (2002) Spit and Polish For an Old Soldier. New York Times 146

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