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

Paterlini, M. (2011). Anthropology: The Iceman defrosted. Nature 471, 34–35.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ellis, G., and Silk, J. (2014). Scientific method: Defend the integrity of physics. Nature 516, 321–323.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palla, G., Barabási, A.-L., and Vicsek, T. (2007). Quantifying social group evolution. Nature 446, 664–667.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Widmer, C., Lippert, C., Weissbrod, O., Fusi, N., Kadie, C., Davidson, R., et al. (2014). Further improvements to linear mixed models for genome-wide association studies. Sci. Rep. 4, 6874.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Urick, V. J., Jr, Mckinney, J. D., and Williams, K. J. (2015). FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROWAVE PHOTONICS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Baldacchino, J., and Vella, R. eds. (2013). Mediterranean Art and Education: Navigating Local, Regional and Global Imaginaries Through the Lens of the Arts And Learning. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Jyoti, A., Tomar, R. S., and Shanker, R. (2016). “Nanosensors for the Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria,” in Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 1, eds. S. Ranjan, N. Dasgupta, and E. Lichtfouse (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 129–150.

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). New Eye Drops Can Dissolve Cataracts With No Need For Surgery. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/these-eye-drops-shrunk-cataracts-dogs/ (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 (1973). Expenditures for Public Affairs 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

Jurica, M. L. (2012). Napping in the workplace as an invisible stigma: The moderating roles of raters’ nap habit, work ethic, and organizational policy. 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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017). Lattice to Seek Trump’s Ear for Chinese-Backed Deal. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Paterlini, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Paterlini, 2011; Ellis and Silk, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ellis and Silk, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Widmer et al., 2014)

About the journal

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