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

Schmerr, N. (2012). The Gutenberg discontinuity: melt at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary. Science 335, 1480–1483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rohrbach, A., and Schmidt, M. W. (2011). Redox freezing and melting in the Earth’s deep mantle resulting from carbon-iron redox coupling. Nature 472, 209–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hempson, G. P., Archibald, S., and Bond, W. J. (2015). A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa. Science 350, 1056–1061.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mustard, J. F., Poulet, F., Gendrin, A., Bibring, J.-P., Langevin, Y., Gondet, B., et al. (2005). Olivine and pyroxene diversity in the crust of Mars. Science 307, 1594–1597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dosil, J. (2008). Eating Disorders in Athletes. Chichester, West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Colecchia, M. ed. (2016). Pathology of Testicular and Penile Neoplasms. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Grossman, T. (2013). “The Early Development of Processing Emotions in Face and Voice,” in Integrating Face and Voice in Person Perception, eds. P. Belin, S. Campanella, and T. Ethofer (New York, NY: Springer), 95–116.

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

Hale, T. (2017). Extinct Baby Bird Has Been Stuck in Amber For 100 Million Years. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extinct-baby-bird-has-been-stuck-in-amber-for-100-million-years/ (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 (1994). Elementary School Children: Many Change Schools Frequently, Harming Their Education. 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

VanQuickenborne, T. (2010). Exploring generative change. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011). Appetite for Racing, And for Winning. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmerr, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Rohrbach and Schmidt, 2011; Schmerr, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Rohrbach and Schmidt, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Mustard et al., 2005)

About the journal

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