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

Downward, J. (2001). The ins and outs of signalling. Nature 411, 759–762.

A journal article with 2 authors

Middelburg, J. J., and Meysman, F. J. R. (2007). Ocean science. Burial at sea. Science 316, 1294–1295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kennedy, S., Wang, D., and Ruvkun, G. (2004). A conserved siRNA-degrading RNase negatively regulates RNA interference in C. elegans. Nature 427, 645–649.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Corrège, T., Gagan, M. K., Beck, J. W., Burr, G. S., Cabioch, G., and Le Cornec, F. (2004). Interdecadal variation in the extent of South Pacific tropical waters during the Younger Dryas event. Nature 428, 927–929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Todinov, M. T. (2005). Reliability and Risk Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fischer-Hübner, S., Lambrinoudakis, C., and Pernul, G. eds. (2009). Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business: 6th International Conference, TrustBus 2009, Linz, Austria, September 3-4, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Crespo, J. M., Betarte, G., and Luna, C. (2009). “A Framework for the Analysis of Access Control Models for Interactive Mobile Devices,” in Types for Proofs and Programs: International Conference, TYPES 2008 Torino, Italy, March 26-29, 2008 Revised Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. S. Berardi, F. Damiani, and U. de’Liguoro (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 49–63.

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, D. (2015). Spectacular “Fire Rainbows” Spotted Above South Carolina. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fire-rainbows-spotted-above-south-carolina/ [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 (2013). School Lunch: Modifications Needed to Some of the New Nutrition Standards. 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

Wilson, P. (2015). A Case Study of the Efficacy of Middle College on Educational Advancement.

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

Hodara, S. (2015). A Museum’s New Spaces for Contemporary Art. New York Times, CT9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Downward, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Downward, 2001; Middelburg and Meysman, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Middelburg and Meysman, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Corrège et al., 2004)

About the journal

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