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. Henrich J. Animal behaviour: inequity aversion in capuchins? Nature. 2004;428(6979):139; discussion 140.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Whitaker DL, Edwards J. Sphagnum moss disperses spores with vortex rings. Science. 2010;329(5990):406.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Obayashi M, Yoshimitsu J, Fukao Y. Tearing of stagnant slab. Science. 2009;324(5931):1173–1175.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

1. Banerjee M, Banerjee N, Bhattacharjee P, Mondal D, Lythgoe PR, Martínez M, Pan J, Polya DA, Giri AK. High arsenic in rice is associated with elevated genotoxic effects in humans. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:2195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Jaitly R. Practical Operational Due Diligence on Hedge Funds. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Pitt KA, Lucas CH, editors. Jellyfish Blooms. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Delerablée C, Paillier P, Pointcheval D. Fully Collusion Secure Dynamic Broadcast Encryption with Constant-Size Ciphertexts or Decryption Keys. In: Takagi T, Okamoto T, Okamoto E, Okamoto T, editors. Pairing-Based Cryptography – Pairing 2007: First International Conference, Tokyo, Japan, July 2-4, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. pp. 39–59. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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. Google Has Developed A Self-Driving Car. IFLScience. 2014 May 28. [accessed October 30, 2018]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/google-has-developed-self-driving-car/

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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA and NASA Have Improved Human Factors Research Coordination, but Stronger Leadership Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010. Report No.: GAO-10-824.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hardiman BS. Resilience of Forest Carbon Storage through Disturbance and Succession [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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. Saslow L. New Prosecutors Will Fight Drunken Driving. New York Times. 2007 May 13:LI2.

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

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