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

Bunk, S. (2001). Better microscopes will be instrumental in nanotechnology development. Nature 410, 127–129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Uversky, V. N., and Dunker, A. K. (2008). Biochemistry. Controlled chaos. Science 322, 1340–1341.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghosh, P., Garzione, C. N., and Eiler, J. M. (2006). Rapid uplift of the Altiplano revealed through 13C-18O bonds in paleosol carbonates. Science 311, 511–515.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen, Q., Ghilardi, N., Wang, H., Baker, T., Xie, M. H., Gurney, A., et al. (2000). Development of Th1-type immune responses requires the type I cytokine receptor TCCR. Nature 407, 916–920.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allerton, D. (2009). Principles of Flight Simulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ehrgott, M., Fonseca, C. M., Gandibleux, X., Hao, J.-K., and Sevaux, M. eds. (2009). Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 5th International Conference, EMO 2009, Nantes, France, April 7-10, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bain, A., and Crisan, D. (2009). “Uniqueness of the Solution to the Zakai and the Kushner–Stratonovich Equations,” in Fundamentals of Stochastic Filtering Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability., ed. D. Crisan (New York, NY: Springer), 95–126.

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

Luntz, S. (2016). Huge New Study Reveals The Impact Of Spanking On Children. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/spanking-leads-angrier-and-more-defiant-children/ [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 (1985). Software Tools and Techniques. 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

Stewart, A. R. (2009). Entrepreneurial perception: A survey of graduates of a global management MBA program.

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

Brantley, B. (2017). Channeling Anger Into Music in a Summer of Discontent. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bunk, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bunk, 2001; Uversky and Dunker, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Uversky and Dunker, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2000)

About the journal

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

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