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

Beverley, S. M. (2015). Parasitology: CRISPR for Cryptosporidium. Nature 523, 413–414.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hines, P. J., and Marx, J. (2001). The endless race between plant and pathogen. Science 292, 2269.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansen, S. B., Tao, X., and MacKinnon, R. (2011). Structural basis of PIP2 activation of the classical inward rectifier K+ channel Kir2.2. Nature 477, 495–498.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gertsman, I., Gan, L., Guttman, M., Lee, K., Speir, J. A., Duda, R. L., et al. (2009). An unexpected twist in viral capsid maturation. Nature 458, 646–650.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bradley, R. L., Jr. (2011). Edison to Enron. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Horton, K. (2010). Ethical Questions and International NGOs: An exchange between Philosophers and NGOs., eds. C. Roche and K. Horton. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Dennis, A., and Marshall, M. (2016). “Investigations,” in Bowel Dysfunction: A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals, eds. B. Collins and E. Bradshaw (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 33–50.

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

Carpineti, A. (2017). Supermassive Black Holes Become Shrouded In Dust During Galaxy Mergers. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/supermassive-black-holes-become-shrouded-in-dust-during-galaxy-mergers/ (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 (2014). Federal Student Loans: Oversight of Defaulted Loan Rehabilitation Needs Strengthening. 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

Blalock, J. M. (2014). The Links at St Andrews, Scotland A phenomenological hermeneutic exploration of golf’s primordial place. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Palmer, E., and Otis, J. (2017). Lifting Hope, With Global Reach. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beverley, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hines and Marx, 2001; Beverley, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hines and Marx, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Gertsman et al., 2009)

About the journal

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