How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 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

Zehr, J. P. (2015). EVOLUTION. How single cells work together. Science 349, 1163–1164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shi, C., and Murphy, C. T. (2014). Mating induces shrinking and death in Caenorhabditis mothers. Science 343, 536–540.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roychowdhury, T., Vishnoi, A., and Bhattacharya, A. (2013). Next-Generation Anchor Based Phylogeny (NexABP): constructing phylogeny from next-generation sequencing data. Sci. Rep. 3, 2634.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fan, C., Fan, M., Orlando, B. J., Fastman, N. M., Zhang, J., Xu, Y., et al. (2018). X-ray and cryo-EM structures of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter. Nature 559, 575–579.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tolin, D. F., Worden, B. L., Wootton, B. M., and Gilliam, C. M. (2017). CBT for Hoarding Disorder. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Griffin, D. E., and Oldstone, M. B. A. eds. (2009). Measles: Pathogenesis and Control. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cooper, K. D., Harvey, T. J., and Waterman, T. (2008). “An Adaptive Strategy for Inline Substitution,” in Compiler Construction: 17th International Conference, CC 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008. Proceedings, ed. L. Hendren (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 69–84.

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 Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017). A Company Has Launched A Rocket From A Balloon For The First Time. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-company-has-launched-a-rocket-from-a-balloon-for-the-first-time/ (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 (1982). Federal Government’s Use of International Data Corporation’s Subscription Services. 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

McElhoes, J. L. (2017). Spatial, Technological, and Functional Variability Among the Prehistoric Ceramics of the Southern California Coast. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Shear, M. D. (2017). Trump to Release Kennedy Killing Papers. New York Times, A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zehr, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Shi and Murphy, 2014; Zehr, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Shi and Murphy, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fan et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Abbreviation	Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.
ISSN (online)	2235-2988
Scope	Immunology Microbiology Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)