How to format your references using the Frontiers in Antigen Presenting Cell Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Antigen Presenting Cell Biology. 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

Gutmann, A. (2013). Ethics. The bioethics commission on incidental findings. Science 342, 1321–1323.

A journal article with 2 authors

West, S. A., and Sheldon, B. C. (2002). Constraints in the evolution of sex ratio adjustment. Science 295, 1685–1688.

A journal article with 3 authors

Minto, C., Myers, R. A., and Blanchard, W. (2008). Survival variability and population density in fish populations. Nature 452, 344–347.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Heil, F., Hemmi, H., Hochrein, H., Ampenberger, F., Kirschning, C., Akira, S., et al. (2004). Species-specific recognition of single-stranded RNA via toll-like receptor 7 and 8. Science 303, 1526–1529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

May, V., and Kühn, O. (2007). Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Hosking, R. J., and Venturino, E. eds. (2008). Aspects of Mathematical Modelling: Applications in Science, Medicine, Economics and Management. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Koller, B., Struckmann, N., Buchholz, J., and Gienger, M. (2015). “Towards an Environment to Deliver High Performance Computing to Small and Medium Enterprises,” in Sustained Simulation Performance 2015: Proceedings of the joint Workshop on Sustained Simulation Performance, University of Stuttgart (HLRS) and Tohoku University, 2015, eds. M. M. Resch, W. Bez, E. Focht, H. Kobayashi, J. Qi, and S. Roller (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 41–50.

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 Antigen Presenting Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016). These Are The Worst Stings In The World, According To A Guy Who’s Experienced Them All. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-are-the-worst-stings-in-the-world-according-to-a-guy-whos-experienced-them-all/ (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 (1982). Evaluation of DOD Comments Re: DOD Instruction 5000.5X, Standard Instruction Set Architectures for Embedded Computers. 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

Millar, C. L. (2010). Re-specting graffiti: Transgression at play in art, language, and ritual. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007). IN REVERSAL OF COURSE, JUSTICES, 5-4, BACK BAN ON ABORTION METHOD. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gutmann, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (West and Sheldon, 2002; Gutmann, 2013).

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

Two authors: (West and Sheldon, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Heil et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Antigen Presenting Cell Biology
Abbreviation	Front. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	1664-3224
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