How to format your references using the Frontiers in Chemoattractants citation style

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

Ellerbroek, B. (2014). Astronomical instrumentation: Atmospheric blurring has a new enemy. Nature 512, 144–145.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shannon, M. F., and Rao, S. (2002). Transcription. Of chips and ChIPs. Science 296, 666–669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfeifer, R., Lungarella, M., and Iida, F. (2007). Self-organization, embodiment, and biologically inspired robotics. Science 318, 1088–1093.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kölsch, V., Seher, T., Fernandez-Ballester, G. J., Serrano, L., and Leptin, M. (2007). Control of Drosophila gastrulation by apical localization of adherens junctions and RhoGEF2. Science 315, 384–386.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heimann, R. B. (2010). Classic and Advanced Ceramics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Kovačević, B. (2013). Adaptive Digital Filters., eds. Z. Banjac and M. Milosavljević. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ganter, B., and Obiedkov, S. (2016). “Attribute exploration,” in Conceptual Exploration, ed. S. Obiedkov (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 125–185.

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 Chemoattractants.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Administering Oxytocin Increases Social Behaviors In Infant Macaques. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/administering-oxytocin-increases-social-behaviors-infant-macaques/ (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 (2009). Joint Strike Fighter: Strong Risk Management Essential as Program Enters Most Challenging Phase. 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

Coleman, E. D. (2014). The Nature of Leadership: A Case Study of Distributed Leadership Amidst A Participative Change Effort. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Williams, J. (2017). One Side Effect of Viagra: Inspiration to Write. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ellerbroek, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Shannon and Rao, 2002; Ellerbroek, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shannon and Rao, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kölsch et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Chemoattractants
Abbreviation	Front. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	1664-3224
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