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. Jackson I I. Taking the Earth’s temperature. Nature. 2000;406:470–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Goedert M, Spillantini MG. A century of Alzheimer’s disease. Science. 2006;314:777–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sang L, Coller HA, Roberts JM. Control of the reversibility of cellular quiescence by the transcriptional repressor HES1. Science. 2008;321:1095–100.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Egawa G, Nakamizo S, Natsuaki Y, Doi H, Miyachi Y, Kabashima K. Intravital analysis of vascular permeability in mice using two-photon microscopy. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1932.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Toutain L, Minaburo A. Local Networks and the Internet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Zeng Z. Dendritic Cells: Biophysics, Tumor Microenvironment and Chinese Traditional Medicine. Xu X, Chen D, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tizghadam A, Bigdeli A, Leon-Garcia A, Naser H. Joint Optimization of Resources and Routes for Minimum Resistance: From Communication Networks to Power Grids. In: Thai MT, Pardalos PM, editors. Handbook of Optimization in Complex Networks: Communication and Social Networks. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 97–142.

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. Moon Crater Gives Hints About The Dino Killer Impact [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/moon-crater-gives-hints-about-the-dino-killer-impact/

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. Education Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Dec. Report No.: OCG-93-18TR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Galyer DL. The Influence of Reference Objects on Vector-Based Memory Representations [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2019.

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. Poniewozik J. Sex, Drugs and Archie. New York Times. 2017 Jan 25;C2.

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