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. Dickson D. Mathematicians chase the seven million-dollar proofs. Nature. 2000;405:383.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Joyce JA, Fearon DT. T cell exclusion, immune privilege, and the tumor microenvironment. Science. 2015;348:74–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cowen RK, Paris CB, Srinivasan A. Scaling of connectivity in marine populations. Science. 2006;311:522–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hou X, Williams M, Siveter DJ, Siveter DJ, Gabbott S, Holwell D, et al. A chancelloriid-like metazoan from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7340.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bullard B. Style and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Ramírez AF, Ben Arous G, Ferrari PA, Newman CM, Sidoravicius V, Vares ME, editors. Topics in Percolative and Disordered Systems. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Yazici Y, Kremers HM. Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis. In: Yazici H, Yazici Y, Lesaffre E, editors. Understanding Evidence-Based Rheumatology: A Guide to Interpreting Criteria, Drugs, Trials, Registries, and Ethics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 127–40.

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. Andrew D. If You Develop Alzheimer’s, Will Your Children Get It Too? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Information Technology: DOD Needs to Strengthen Management of Its Statutorily Mandated Software and System Process Improvement Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Sep. Report No.: GAO-09-888.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Burgner J. Bullying prevention: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Lee L. Almost Ready to Fly. New York Times. 2012 Mar 1;D3.

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

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