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

Selkoe, D. J. (2002). Alzheimer’s disease is a synaptic failure. Science 298, 789–791.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bland, P. A., and Artemieva, N. A. (2003). Efficient disruption of small asteroids by Earth’s atmosphere. Nature 424, 288–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Logoteta, D., Fiori, G., and Iannaccone, G. (2014). Graphene-based lateral heterostructure transistors exhibit better intrinsic performance than graphene-based vertical transistors as post-CMOS devices. Sci. Rep. 4, 6607.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wild, E. M., Teschler-Nicola, M., Kutschera, W., Steier, P., Trinkaus, E., and Wanek, W. (2005). Direct dating of Early Upper Palaeolithic human remains from Mladec. Nature 435, 332–335.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton, D. (2009). Trump University Marketing 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yue, G., and Li, S. eds. (2016). Clean Coal Technology and Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Coal Combustion. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, H., and Shi, H. (2012). “Knowledge Reduction Based on Evidence Reasoning Theory in Interval Ordered Information Systems,” in Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications: 8th International Conference, ICIC 2012, Huangshan, China, July 25-29, 2012. Proceedings, eds. D.-S. Huang, J. Ma, K.-H. Jo, and M. M. Gromiha (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 27–34.

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

Luntz, S. (2016). Extinct Kitten-Sized Marsupial Lion Named After David Attenborough. 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). State Department: Problems in Compiling List of Countries Restricting Longshore Activities. 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

McCready, M. (2017). Examining the Role of Community Capacity for Sustainable Water Planning through Local Urban Governance: A Case Study Analysis of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Yee, V., and Rosenberg, E. (2015). Fatal Brooklyn Apartment Fire Was Arson, Police Say. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Selkoe, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Selkoe, 2002; Bland and Artemieva, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Bland and Artemieva, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wild et al., 2005)

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)