How to format your references using the Frontiers in Fungi and Their Interactions citation style

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

Holmes, C. D. (2014). Air pollution and forest water use. Nature 507, E1-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ignés-Mullol, J., and Schwartz, D. K. (2001). Shear-induced molecular precession in a hexatic Langmuir monolayer. Nature 410, 348–351.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stern, M., Umansky, V., and Bar-Joseph, I. (2014). Exciton liquid in coupled quantum wells. Science 343, 55–57.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zeng, Y., Xie, X., Duan, J., Zhou, T., Zhang, Y., Yang, M., et al. (2014). Perturbation of mitiglinide metabolism by chronic unpredicted mild stress in rats. Sci. Rep. 4, 3794.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prydie, D., and Hewitt, I. (2015). Practical Physiotherapy for Small Animal Practice. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fischer, K., Florian, M., and Malsch, T. eds. (2005). Socionics: Scalability of Complex Social Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mark, D., Varma, J., LaMarche, J., Horovitz, A., and Kim, K. (2015). “Preparing for Change: Migrations and Versioning,” in More iPhone Development with Swift: Exploring the iOS SDK, eds. J. Varma, J. LaMarche, A. Horovitz, and K. Kim (Berkeley, CA: Apress), 127–135.

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 Fungi and Their Interactions.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). Moth Night Vision is Specialized for Tracking Flowers Swaying in the Breeze. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/moth-night-vision-specialized-tracking-flowers-swaying-breeze/ (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 (2015). Post-9/11 GI Bill: Additional Actions Needed to Help Reduce Overpayments and Increase Collections. 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

Zitko, J. A. (2012). Effects of Random Cross-Sectioned Distributions, Fiber Misalignment and Interphases in Three-Dimensional Composite Models on Transverse Shear Modulus. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Shpigel, B. (2017). Top Safety From L.S.U. With Reputation for Intensity Drops Into Jets’ Lap at No. 6. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holmes, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ignés-Mullol and Schwartz, 2001; Holmes, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ignés-Mullol and Schwartz, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zeng et al., 2014)

About the journal

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