How to format your references using the Frontiers in Alloimmunity and Transplantation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Alloimmunity and Transplantation. 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 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

Kopelman, P. G. (2000). Obesity as a medical problem. Nature 404, 635–643.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ewing, R. C., and von Hippel, F. N. (2009). Energy. Nuclear waste management in the United States--starting over. Science 325, 151–152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deng, L., Shangguan, Z.-P., and Sweeney, S. (2014). “Grain for Green” driven land use change and carbon sequestration on the Loess Plateau, China. Sci. Rep. 4, 7039.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nam, M.-S., Mézière, C., Batail, P., Zorina, L., Simonov, S., and Ardavan, A. (2013). Superconducting fluctuations in organic molecular metals enhanced by Mott criticality. Sci. Rep. 3, 3390.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armstrong, R. A., and Hilton, A. C. (2010). Statistical Analysis in Microbiology: Statnotes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Marciniec, B. ed. (2009). Hydrosilylation: A Comprehensive Review on Recent Advances. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Nizhnikau, R., and Alvari, N. (2016). “Ice Hockey World Championship in Belarus: Political Context,” in Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion, eds. A. Makarychev and A. Yatsyk (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US), 79–97.

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 Frontiers in Alloimmunity and Transplantation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Astronomers Figure Out Why The Universe Isn’t As Bright As It Should Be. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/researchers-explain-why-universe-isn-t-bright-anticipated/ (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

Government Accountability Office (2011). Aviation Safety: Status of FAA’s Actions to Oversee the Safety of Composite Airplanes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sevier, J. (2013). A preventative and treatment substance use program for GLBT adolescents in Long Beach: A grant proposal. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Cooper, M. (2017). The Met Stars in Its West Side Story. New York Times, AR10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kopelman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kopelman, 2000; Ewing and von Hippel, 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Ewing and von Hippel, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Nam et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Alloimmunity and Transplantation
Abbreviation	Front. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	1664-3224
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