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

McKee, C. F. (2011). Astronomy. Let there be dust. Science 333, 1227–1228.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, A., and Sooryakumar, R. (2013). Patterned time-orbiting potentials for the confinement and assembly of magnetic dipoles. Sci. Rep. 3, 3124.

A journal article with 3 authors

Makino, D. L., Baumgärtner, M., and Conti, E. (2013). Crystal structure of an RNA-bound 11-subunit eukaryotic exosome complex. Nature 495, 70–75.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Takamori, S., Rhee, J. S., Rosenmund, C., and Jahn, R. (2000). Identification of a vesicular glutamate transporter that defines a glutamatergic phenotype in neurons. Nature 407, 189–194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ham, B. M. (2011). Proteomics of Biological Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yao, T. ed. (2011). Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Global COE Program “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System.” Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Alahmari, S. (2015). “Overcoming Cultural Barriers,” in Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times: Stories Disclosed in a Cultural Foundations of Education Course, eds. N. D. Hartlep and B. O. Hensley (Rotterdam: SensePublishers), 37–41.

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. (2015). These Extraordinary Images Could Be The Key To Better Research Into Autism. 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 (1994). Federal Judicial Space Follow-up. 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

Rich, J. B. (2009). Guinevere takes her seat at the Round Table—or does she? Moving a primary Western myth forward. 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

Gustines, G. G. (2010). Neil Young’s Greendale, Illustrated. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McKee, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (McKee, 2011; Chen and Sooryakumar, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Sooryakumar, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Takamori et al., 2000)

About the journal

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