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

Cully, M. (2014). Public health: The politics of antibiotics. Nature 509, S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bekerman, E., and Einav, S. (2015). Infectious disease. Combating emerging viral threats. Science 348, 282–283.

A journal article with 3 authors

De Pontieu, B., Erdélyi, R., and James, S. P. (2004). Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows. Nature 430, 536–539.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Morrow, T. J., Li, M., Kim, J., Mayer, T. S., and Keating, C. D. (2009). Programmed assembly of DNA-coated nanowire devices. Science 323, 352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman, S. H. (2006). ESD. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Canepari, M., Zecevic, D., and Bernus, O. eds. (2015). Membrane Potential Imaging in the Nervous System and Heart., 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin, J., and Wu, W. (2013). “FEM Implementation of Micropolar Hypoplastic Model,” in Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials: Advances and New Applications, eds. Q. Yang, J.-M. Zhang, H. Zheng, and Y. Yao (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 59–62.

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

Fang, J. (2014). The Gut Microbe That Protects Against Peanut Allergies. IFLScience.

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 (2010). DOD Business Transformation: Improved Management Oversight of Business System Modernization Efforts Needed. 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

Pratt, P. R. (2009). Analysis of the thermo-mechanical characteristics of the LENS^TM process for steels using the finite element method. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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

Novick, S. M. (2015). Reaching Across the Menu Divide. New York Times, LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cully, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Cully, 2014; Bekerman and Einav, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bekerman and Einav, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Morrow et al., 2009)

About the journal

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