How to format your references using the Frontiers in Food Microbiology citation style

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

Dohlman, H. G. (2002). Diminishing returns. Nature 418, 591.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wright, K. P., Jr, and Czeisler, C. A. (2002). Absence of circadian phase resetting in response to bright light behind the knees. Science 297, 571.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bliss, T. V. P., Collingridge, G. L., and Laroche, S. (2006). Neuroscience. ZAP and ZIP, a story to forget. Science 313, 1058–1059.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Song, J.-J., Smith, S. K., Hannon, G. J., and Joshua-Tor, L. (2004). Crystal structure of Argonaute and its implications for RISC slicer activity. Science 305, 1434–1437.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Naylor, W., Laverty, D., and Mallett, J. (2008). The Royal Marsden Hospital Handbook of Wound Management in Cancer Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Quisumbing, A. R., Meinzen-Dick, R., Raney, T. L., Croppenstedt, A., Behrman, J. A., and Peterman, A. eds. (2014). Gender in Agriculture: Closing the Knowledge Gap. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Halfond, W. G. J., and Orso, A. (2007). “Detection and Prevention of SQL Injection Attacks,” in Malware Detection, eds. M. Christodorescu, S. Jha, D. Maughan, D. Song, and C. Wang (Boston, MA: Springer US), 85–109.

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 Food Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Secrets Of The Orchid Mantis Revealed – It Doesn’t Mimic An Orchid After All. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/secrets-orchid-mantis-revealed-it-doesn-t-mimic-orchid-after-all/ (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 (2003). Distance Education: Challenges for Minority Serving Institutions and Implications for Federal Education Policy. 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

Queener, J. D. (2015). A Post-School Outcome Study of Students with Learning Disabilities. 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

Oestreich, J. R. (2017). Grand and Beloved (Sometimes Hated). New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dohlman, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dohlman, 2002; Wright and Czeisler, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wright and Czeisler, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Song et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Food Microbiology
Abbreviation	Front. Microbiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-302X
Scope	Microbiology Microbiology (medical)