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

Smith, I. (2007). Chemistry. Single-molecule catalysis. Science 315, 470–471.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farquhar, G. D., and Roderick, M. L. (2003). Atmospheric science. Pinatubo, diffuse light, and the carbon cycle. Science 299, 1997–1998.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cook, D. J., Teves, L., and Tymianski, M. (2012). Treatment of stroke with a PSD-95 inhibitor in the gyrencephalic primate brain. Nature 483, 213–217.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Burgdorf, S., Kautz, A., Böhnert, V., Knolle, P. A., and Kurts, C. (2007). Distinct pathways of antigen uptake and intracellular routing in CD4 and CD8 T cell activation. Science 316, 612–616.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benslama, M., Batatia, H., and Messai, A. (2016). Transitions from Digital Communications to Quantum Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Qadeer, S., and Tasiran, S. eds. (2013). Runtime Verification: Third International Conference, RV 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, September 25-28, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Morales Trujillo, M., Oktaba, H., Pino, F. J., and Orozco, M. J. (2011). “Applying Agile and Lean Practices in a Software Development Project into a CMMI Organization,” in Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 12th International Conference, PROFES 2011, Torre Canne, Italy, June 20-22, 2011. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. D. Caivano, M. Oivo, M. T. Baldassarre, and G. Visaggio (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 17–29.

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

Taub, B. (2016). Smoking A Pack Of Cigarettes A Day Causes 150 Mutations A Year In Every Lung Cell. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/smoking-pack-cigarettes-day-causes-150-mutations-year-every-lung-cell/ [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 (1976). Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program. 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

McCahill, T. P. (2014). Teacher perceptions of response to intervention for English learners.

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

Baker, L. (2010). A Housing Project That Embraces A City and Nature. New York Times, B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Farquhar and Roderick, 2003; Smith, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Farquhar and Roderick, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Burgdorf et al., 2007)

About the journal

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

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