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

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

Nielsen, J. (2015). BIOENGINEERING. Yeast cell factories on the horizon. Science 349, 1050–1051.

A journal article with 2 authors

Virshup, D. M., and Kaldis, P. (2010). Cell biology. Enforcing the Greatwall in mitosis. Science 330, 1638–1639.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jackson, D. E., Holcombe, M., and Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2004). Trail geometry gives polarity to ant foraging networks. Nature 432, 907–909.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lu, X., Borchers, A. G. M., Jolicoeur, C., Rayburn, H., Baker, J. C., and Tessier-Lavigne, M. (2004). PTK7/CCK-4 is a novel regulator of planar cell polarity in vertebrates. Nature 430, 93–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Troppens, U., Erkens, R., and Müller, W. (2004). Storage Networks Explained. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kanaun, S. K. (2008). Self-Consistent Methods for Composites: Vol.1: Static Problems., ed. V. M. Levin. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Mobilio, S. (2015). “Introduction to Matter Radiation Interaction,” in Synchrotron Radiation: Basics, Methods and Applications, eds. S. Mobilio, F. Boscherini, and C. Meneghini (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 107–143.

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 Tolerance.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). Moving Closer To A Potential Fifth Force Of Nature. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/moving-closer-to-a-potential-fifth-force-of-nature/ (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 (1991). Farmers Home Administration: Half-Billion Dollar ADP Modernization Lacks Adequate Planning and Oversight. 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

Bravo, D. (2013). Parents’ perspectives of undocumented students’ transition from high school. 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

Feeney, K. (2009). On Tap: Beer and Conversation. New York Times, NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nielsen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Virshup and Kaldis, 2010; Nielsen, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Virshup and Kaldis, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2004)

About the journal

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