How to format your references using the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 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. Goedert M. NEURODEGENERATION. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein. Science. 2015;349:1255555.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kang B, Ceder G. Battery materials for ultrafast charging and discharging. Nature. 2009;458:190–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McCormick DA, Shu Y, Yu Y. Neurophysiology: Hodgkin and Huxley model--still standing? Nature. 2007;445:E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rayner KJ, Esau CC, Hussain FN, McDaniel AL, Marshall SM, van Gils JM, et al. Inhibition of miR-33a/b in non-human primates raises plasma HDL and lowers VLDL triglycerides. Nature. 2011;478:404–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wesche R. Physical Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Fütterer DK, Damaske D, Kleinschmidt G, Miller H, Tessensohn F, editors. Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Edge D, Blackwell AF. Peripheral Tangible Interaction. In: Bakker S, Hausen D, Selker T, editors. Peripheral Interaction: Challenges and Opportunities for HCI in the Periphery of Attention. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 65–93.

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 for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Thunderstorm In Australia Sparks Thousands Of Asthma Attacks and Kills Four People [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/thunderstorm-in-australia-sparks-thousands-of-asthma-attacks-and-kills-four-people/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Guaranteed Student Loans: Guidelines for Reducing Guaranty Agency Reserves. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Aug. Report No.: HRD-86-129BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. So RJ. Coolie democracy: U.S.-China political and literary exchange, 1925-1955 [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia 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. Greenhouse L. Justices, 5-4, Accept No Excuses From Inmate for Mistaken Late Filing of an Appeal. New York Times. 2007 Jun 15;A18.

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 for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
Abbreviation	J. Immunother. Cancer
ISSN (online)	2051-1426
Scope	Cancer Research Molecular Medicine Immunology Immunology and Allergy Oncology Pharmacology