How to format your references using the Immuno-Oncology Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Immuno-Oncology Technology. 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

[1]

Nichols S. Experimental philosophy and the problem of free will. Science 2011;331:1401–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Teh O-K, Moore I. An ARF-GEF acting at the Golgi and in selective endocytosis in polarized plant cells. Nature 2007;448:493–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Montzka SA, Dlugokencky EJ, Butler JH. Non-CO2 greenhouse gases and climate change. Nature 2011;476:43–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Swedlow JR, Goldberg I, Brauner E, Sorger PK. Informatics and quantitative analysis in biological imaging. Science 2003;300:100–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Langlois P. Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Abdi H, Esposito Vinzi V, Russolillo G, Saporta G, Trinchera L, editors. The Multiple Facets of Partial Least Squares and Related Methods: PLS, Paris, France, 2014. vol. 173. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dudley AC, Cloer EW, Melero-Martin JM. The Role of Bone Marrow-Derived Progenitor Cells in Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis. In: Hayat MA, editor. Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 8: Therapeutic Applications in Disease and Injury, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012, p. 45–54.

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 Immuno-Oncology Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Rising Seas Bring Heavy Burden To Florida Coastal Economy. Can It Adapt? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rising-seas-bring-heavy-burden-florida-coastal-economy-can-it-adapt/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. National Transportation Safety Board: Progress Made in Management Practices, Investigation Priorities, Training Center Use, and Information Security, But These Areas Continue to Need Improvement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Parsons JR. Throwing a wrench in the translational machinery: Discovery of RNA ligands by fluorescence techniques. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 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

[1]

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. Arts, Briefly; Opera Dispute at Bolshoi. New York Times 2005:E2.

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	Immuno-Oncology Technology
ISSN (print)	2590-0188
Scope

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