How to format your references using the Immuno-Oncology Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Immuno-Oncology Technology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Anthes E. Treatment: Marginal gains. Nature 2014;508:S54-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Reppert SM, Weaver DR. Coordination of circadian timing in mammals. Nature 2002;418:935–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rojas JP, Torres Sevilla GA, Hussain MM. Can we build a truly high performance computer which is flexible and transparent? Sci Rep 2013;3:2609.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lorenz RD, Stiles BW, Kirk RL, Allison MD, Del Marmo PP, Iess L, et al. Titan’s rotation reveals an internal ocean and changing zonal winds. Science 2008;319:1649–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sundararajan D. Discretewavelet Transform. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Brandenburg R. Pedagogies for the Future: Leading Quality Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Melián-Batista B, Moreno-Vega JM, Vaswani N, Yumar R. A Nature Inspired Approach for the Uncapacitated Plant Cycle Location Problem. In: Krasnogor N, Melián-Batista MB, Pérez JAM, Moreno-Vega JM, Pelta DA, editors. Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2008), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 49–60.

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 Immuno-Oncology Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. HIV Undetectable In Two Patients Following Cancer Treatment. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-undetectable-two-patients-following-cancer-treatment/ (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. DOD is Making Progress in Adopting Best Practices for the Transformational Satellite Communications System and Space Radar but Still Faces Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bornheimer ME. The influence of leadership development programs on the community college leadership shortage: A case study. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral 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]

Bray C, Corkery M. Citigroup Said to Open Frankfurt Hub in Post-‘Brexit’ Move. New York Times 2017:B3.

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	Immuno-Oncology Technology
ISSN (print)	2590-0188
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