How to format your references using the Journal of Cellular Immunotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cellular 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 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]

Stefánsson K. Genome-sequencing anniversary. An anniversary party. Science 2011;331:691.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mattaini KR, Vander Heiden MG. Cancer. Glycosylation to adapt to stress. Science 2012;337:925–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Alarousu E, AlSaggaf A, Jabbour GE. Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Sci Rep 2013;3:1562.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Adámkovics M, Wong MH, Laver C, de Pater I. Widespread morning drizzle on Titan. Science 2007;318:962–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rodgers N. Learning to Reason. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2000.

An edited book

[1]

van Aartsengel A. A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation: Concepts, Processes, Implementation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cisneros LH, Ganguly S, Goldstein RE, Kessler JO. Individual to Collective Dynamics of Swimming Bacteria. In: Childress S, Hosoi A, Schultz WW, Wang J, editors. Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 73–82.

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 of Cellular Immunotherapy.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Orgasms Are Like Sexual Currency, Argues Researcher. 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. Aviation Workforce: Current and Future Availability of Aviation Engineering and Maintenance Professionals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Florio ML. Assessing the impacts of knowing natural team player styles on team satisfaction and cohesion. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2012.

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]

Koblin J. ‘Westworld’ Creators Speak of Seasons, Spoilers and Patience. New York Times 2016:C3.

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 of Cellular Immunotherapy
ISSN (print)	2352-1775
Scope