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]

Venter JC. Multiple personal genomes await. Nature 2010;464:676–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McCauley DW, Bronner-Fraser M. Importance of SoxE in neural crest development and the evolution of the pharynx. Nature 2006;441:750–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yoshida M-A, Yura K, Ogura A. Cephalopod eye evolution was modulated by the acquisition of Pax-6 splicing variants. Sci Rep 2014;4:4256.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang F, Wang Z, Dong W, Sun C, Wang H, Song A, et al. Transcriptomic and proteomic analysis reveals mechanisms of embryo abortion during chrysanthemum cross breeding. Sci Rep 2014;4:6536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Häberlin H. Photovoltaics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Böckle G, Wiese G, editors. Computations with Modular Forms: Proceedings of a Summer School and Conference, Heidelberg, August/September 2011. vol. 6. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ren B, Ge SS, Chen C, Fua C-H, Lee TH. Altitude Control of Helicopters with Unknown Dynamics. In: Ge SS, Chen C, Fua C-H, Lee TH, editors. Modeling, Control and Coordination of Helicopter Systems, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 59–92.

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]

Davis J. The Last 12-Month Period Was The Hottest For The Ninth Time In A Row. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-last-12month-period-was-the-hottest-for-the-ninth-time-in-a-row/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Review of ROTC Consortium Agreement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Li K. An explicative model of leisure-time physical activities among church-going African Americans in Indianapolis. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana 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]

Kenigsberg B. Returning, and Inspiring the Likes of Spielberg. New York Times 2017:C6.

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