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. Schiermeier Q. Catalonian powerhouse. Nature. 2008;454(7201):248–249.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kwon H-B, Sabatini BL. Glutamate induces de novo growth of functional spines in developing cortex. Nature. 2011;474(7349):100–104.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Shiu R-F, Chin W-C, Lee C-L. Carbonaceous particles reduce marine microgel formation. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:5856.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

1. Lecossier D, Bouchonnet F, Clavel F, Hance AJ. Hypermutation of HIV-1 DNA in the absence of the Vif protein. Science. 2003;300(5622):1112.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Noordenbos G. Recovery from Eating Disorders. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Buchleitner A, Viviescas C, Tiersch M, editors. Entanglement and Decoherence: Foundations and Modern Trends. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. (Lecture Notes in Physics).

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gao Y, Zhang N, Ma X. An Outcome Space Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for a Class of Linear Multiplicative Programming Problems. In: Gao D, Ruan N, Xing W, editors. Advances in Global Optimization. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. pp. 41–50. (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics).

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. Andrew E. We Could Have Lasers More Powerful Than Exploding Stars In Just 5 Years. IFLScience. 2015 Jun 2. [accessed October 30, 2018]. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/lasers-more-powerful-exploding-stars-will-be-earth-5-years/

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. Advance Sheets: Volume 74, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995. Report No.: OGC-95-10.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Leak SC. Building community capacity to meet the needs of our aging society: Interdisciplinary competency development for professionals [Doctoral dissertation]. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina; 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. Williams J. Some Inheritances Aren’t Prized. New York Times. 2017 Sep 17:C6.

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