How to format your references using the Frontiers in Immunological Memory citation style

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

Abeliovich, A. (2014). Neurological disorders: Quality-control pathway unlocked. Nature 510, 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vaughan, D. G., and Arthern, R. (2007). Climate change. Why is it hard to predict the future of ice sheets? Science 315, 1503–1504.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weaver, B. A. A., Silk, A. D., and Cleveland, D. W. (2006). Cell biology: nondisjunction, aneuploidy and tetraploidy. Nature 442, E9-10; discussion E10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yuan, X., Arkonac, D. E., Chao, P.-H. G., and Vunjak-Novakovic, G. (2014). Electrical stimulation enhances cell migration and integrative repair in the meniscus. Sci. Rep. 4, 3674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wu, Z. (2007). Software VNA and Microwave Network Design and Characterisation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gutwirth, S., Poullet, Y., De Hert, P., and Leenes, R. eds. (2011). Computers, Privacy and Data Protection: an Element of Choice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bui, Q. T., Pham, Q. D., and Deville, Y. (2014). “Solving the Quorumcast Routing Problem as a Mixed Integer Program,” in Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming: 11th International Conference, CPAIOR 2014, Cork, Ireland, May 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, ed. H. Simonis (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 45–54.

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 Immunological Memory.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). DARPA’s New Prosthetic Hand Lets Paralyzed Man “Feel” Sensations. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/paralyzed-man-feels-sensations-darpas-prosthetic-hand/ (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 (2005). Digital Broadcast Television Transition: Several Challenges Could Arise in Administering a Subsidy Program for DTV Equipment. 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

Rodriguez, S. G. (2010). Devotion to land: The Virgin Mary and the Mudejar in the post-conquest program of Alfonso X of Castile, 1252–1284. 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

Mackay, I. P. (1936). An Arraignment. New York Times, BOOKS20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abeliovich, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Vaughan and Arthern, 2007; Abeliovich, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vaughan and Arthern, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Yuan et al., 2014)

About the journal

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