How to format your references using the Cancer Immunology Research citation style

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

Schlermiler Q. German research agency “doesn’t stifle creativity”, say 1,600 scientists. Nature. 2000;404:915.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shi Q, King RW. Chromosome nondisjunction yields tetraploid rather than aneuploid cells in human cell lines. Nature. 2005;437:1038–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li M, Butka E, Wang X. Comprehensive quantification of triacylglycerols in soybean seeds by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry with multiple neutral loss scans. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6581.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tanaka K, Kuma K, Hamasaki K, Yamashita Y. Accumulation of humic-like fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the Japan Sea. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calloway J. Becoming a Category of One. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Baun C. Cloud Computing: Web-Based Dynamic IT Services. Kunze M, Nimis J, Tai S, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Leal Filho W, Kovaleva M. Research Methods. In: Kovaleva M, editor. Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. page 81–2.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. How Should We Compensate Poor Countries For ‘Loss And Famage’ From Climate Change? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-should-we-compensate-poor-countries-loss-and-famage-climate-change/

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. Status of FCC Efforts To Allocate Costs Between Telephone Companies’ Regulated and Unregulated Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Sep. Report No.: RCED-83-235.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams AW. Shepherd leadership of Church of God pastors and how this relates to ministerial effectiveness [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2013.

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

Pilon M. Catching a Running Partner at the Trials,With a Chance to Pass. New York Times. 2012;B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Research
Abbreviation	Cancer Immunol. Res.
ISSN (print)	2326-6066
ISSN (online)	2326-6074
Scope	Cancer Research Immunology