How to format your references using the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 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. Macilwain C. Rejection of GM crops is not a failure for science. Nature. 2015;525:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Knepper MA, Agre P. Structural biology. The atomic architecture of a gas channel. Science. 2004;305:1573–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Losos JB, Hillis DM, Greene HW. Evolution. Who speaks with a forked tongue? Science. 2012;338:1428–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Narayanan K, Yen SK, Dou Q, Padmanabhan P, Sudhaharan T, Ahmed S, et al. Mimicking cellular transport mechanism in stem cells through endosomal escape of new peptide-coated quantum dots. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lieberman NP. Troubleshooting Vacuum Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Schwab M, editor. Encyclopedia of Cancer. 3rd ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ren S, Wang D, Wang H. Research on Business Risk Assessment Model of City Commercial Banks Based on Grey System Theory. In: Zhang J, editor. Applied Informatics and Communication: International Conference, ICAIC 2011, Xi’an, China, August 20-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part V. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 30–7.

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 Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. New Hypothesis Shows How Supermassive Black Holes Formed [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-hypothesis-shows-how-supermassive-black-holes-formed/

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. 911 Services: Most States Used 911 Funds for Intended Purposes, but FCC Could Improve Its Reporting on States’ Use of Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Apr. Report No.: GAO-13-376.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Thomas Hurford CE. “In his arm the scar”: Medicine, race, and the social implications of the 1721 inoculation controversy on Boston [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 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. Risen J. Trump Can Target Journalists, Thanks to Obama. New York Times. 2016 Dec 30;SR3.

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	Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
Abbreviation	J. Immunother. Cancer
ISSN (online)	2051-1426
Scope	Cancer Research Molecular Medicine Immunology Immunology and Allergy Oncology Pharmacology