How to format your references using the Frontiers in Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy. 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

de Waal, F. B. M. (2013). Behavior. Animal conformists. Science 340, 437–438.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawaguchi, K., and Ishiwata, S. (2001). Nucleotide-dependent single- to double-headed binding of kinesin. Science 291, 667–669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reich, D. S., Mechler, F., and Victor, J. D. (2001). Independent and redundant information in nearby cortical neurons. Science 294, 2566–2568.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yang, B., Zhou, Y. T., Chen, D., and Ma, X. L. (2013). Local decomposition induced by dislocation motions inside precipitates in an Al-alloy. Sci. Rep. 3, 1039.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fitzgerald, R. W., and Meacham, B. J. (2017). Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sovacool, B. K. (2016). The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation., ed. B.-O. Linnér. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Bloom, J. D. (2014). “Subsidizing Sustainability: The Role of the State and Civil Society in Implementing Wal-Mart’s Local Produce Sourcing Program,” in Law and the Transition to Business Sustainability, eds. D. R. Cahoy and J. E. Colburn (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 57–83.

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 Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Bizarre Cloud Formation Spotted In Australian Skies. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/stunning-cloud-formation-spotted-australian-skies/ (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 (1998). National Airspace System: FAA Has Implemented Some Free Flight Initiatives, but Challenges Remain. 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

McCarty, A. (2012). Measuring the impact of training in the implementation of project management information systems. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Martin, V. (2014). Pitfalls of Privilege. New York Times, BR11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Waal, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kawaguchi and Ishiwata, 2001; de Waal, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kawaguchi and Ishiwata, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy
Abbreviation	Front. Microbiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-302X
Scope	Microbiology Microbiology (medical)