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 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. Wegner DM. How to think, say, or do precisely the worst thing for any occasion. Science. 2009;325(5936):48–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rodrigues AR, Tabin CJ. Developmental biology. Deserts and waves in gene expression. Science. 2013;340(6137):1181–1182.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pullium JK, Roble GS, Raymond MA. Emergency planning: Be prepared. Nature. 2014;514(7523):430.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

1. Im YJ, Raychaudhuri S, Prinz WA, Hurley JH. Structural mechanism for sterol sensing and transport by OSBP-related proteins. Nature. 2005;437(7055):154–158.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Williams P. Managing Measurement Risk in Building and Civil Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Lamiroy B, Ogier J-M, editors. Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges: 10th International Workshop, GREC 2013, Bethlehem, PA, USA, August 20-21, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

A chapter in an edited book

1. D’Abbondanza JA, Lass E, Ai J, Macdonald RL. Mouse Genetic Background Is Associated with Variation in Secondary Complications After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In: Fandino J, Marbacher S, Fathi A-R, Muroi C, Keller E, editors. Neurovascular Events After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Towards Experimental and Clinical Standardisation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. pp. 29–33.

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. When Your Body Becomes Your Password, The End Of The Login Is Nigh. IFLScience. 2015 Mar 23. [accessed October 30, 2018]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/when-your-body-becomes-your-password-end-login-nigh/

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. Computers in Government: We Couldn’t Do Without Them. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980. Report No.: 112745.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Winer EJ. Elementary School Consolidation and Reconfiguration: An Autoethnographic Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. Scottsdale, AZ: 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. Kelly D. Mudville Can Never Die. New York Times. 2001 Apr 15:725.

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