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

Mervis, J. (2004). Department of Energy. Nominee scores cabinet hat trick. Science 306, 2018.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aronson, S. J., and Rehm, H. L. (2015). Building the foundation for genomics in precision medicine. Nature 526, 336–342.

A journal article with 3 authors

Katsanis, S. H., Javitt, G., and Hudson, K. (2008). Public health. A case study of personalized medicine. Science 320, 53–54.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Song, T., Cai, X., Tu, M. W.-Y., Zhang, X., Huang, B., Wilson, N. P., et al. (2018). Giant tunneling magnetoresistance in spin-filter van der Waals heterostructures. Science 360, 1214–1218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharpe, N. F., and Carter, R. F. (2005). Genetic Testing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Abe, T. (2009). Scientific Ballooning: Technology and Applications of Exploration Balloons Floating in the Stratosphere and the Atmospheres of Other Planets., eds. T. Imamura, N. Izutsu, and N. Yajima. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mathis, K. (2012). “Future Generations in John RawlsRawls, John ’ Theory of Justice,” in Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations, ed. K. Mathis (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 97–112.

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). Can A Virtual Reality Game Make You Forget You’re In Pain? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-virtual-reality-game-make-you-forget-you-re-pain/ (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 (2004). Aviation Security: Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System Faces Significant Implementation Challenges. 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

Denny, H. M. (2012). Impact of Occupational Health Interventions in Indonesia. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr (2017). Prosecutor Declined To Pursue Allegations. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Mervis, 2004; Aronson and Rehm, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Aronson and Rehm, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Song et al., 2018)

About the journal

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