How to format your references using the Immunotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	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 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

Halpern JP. Astronomy. Gamma-ray pulsars old and new. Science 325(5942), 821–822 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

Whetten RL, Price RC. Chemistry. Nano-golden order. Science 318(5849), 407–408 (2007).

A journal article with 3 authors

Rohatgi R, Milenkovic L, Scott MP. Patched1 regulates hedgehog signaling at the primary cilium. Science 317(5836), 372–376 (2007).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang QM, Li H, Poh M et al. An all-organic composite actuator material with a high dielectric constant. Nature 419(6904), 284–287 (2002).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigo M. Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014).

An edited book

Abdinia S. Design of Organic Complementary Circuits and Systems on Foil. (1st ed. 2015 Edition). Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Koprinska I, Rana M, Agelidis VG. Electricity Load Forecasting: A Weekday-Based Approach. In: Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2012: 22nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 11-14, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Villa AEP, Duch W, Érdi P, Masulli F, Palm G (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 33–41 (2012).

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 Immunotherapy.

Blog post

Andrew D. ‘Incredible Optical Illusion Tattoo’ (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/incredible-optical-illusion-tattoo/.

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. Women in the Workplace: An Annotated Bibliography, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1979).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sumner I. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, (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

Vecsey G. Cosby Can Laugh Now, but Football Was Serious Business, (2010).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Immunotherapy
Abbreviation	Immunotherapy
ISSN (print)	1750-743X
ISSN (online)	1750-7448
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Oncology