How to format your references using the OncoImmunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for OncoImmunology. 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	Download the output style file
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. Debe MK. Electrocatalyst approaches and challenges for automotive fuel cells. Nature. 2012;486(7401):43–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Brochier C, Philippe H. Phylogeny: a non-hyperthermophilic ancestor for bacteria. Nature. 2002;417(6886):244.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Blüher M, Kahn BB, Kahn CR. Extended longevity in mice lacking the insulin receptor in adipose tissue. Science. 2003;299(5606):572–574.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

1. Favors Z, Wang W, Bay HH, George A, Ozkan M, Ozkan CS. Stable cycling of SiO₂ nanotubes as high-performance anodes for lithium-ion batteries. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:4605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Tagliamonte SA. Making Waves. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Chen J. The Vixen Star Book User Guide: How to Use the Star Book TEN and the Original Star Book. Chen A, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series).

A chapter in an edited book

1. Howie S, Plomp T. International Comparative Studies of Education and Large-Scale Change. In: Bascia N, Cumming A, Datnow A, Leithwood K, Livingstone D, editors. International Handbook of Educational Policy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. pp. 75–99. (Springer International Handbooks of Education).

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 OncoImmunology.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. What In The Name Of Thor Are These Icelandic Zig-Zags? IFLScience. 2017 Mar 21. [accessed October 30, 2018]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-name-thor-zigzags-iceland/

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. Implementation of the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985. Report No.: 128369.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gopalappa C. Three essays on analytical models to improve early detection of cancer [Doctoral dissertation]. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida; 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. James M. Five or Six Things I Didn’t Know About Brad Pitt. New York Times. 2016 Sep 7:M2128.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	OncoImmunology
Abbreviation	Oncoimmunology
ISSN (print)	2162-4011
ISSN (online)	2162-402X
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Oncology