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

Verduzco, R. (2015). Actuating materials. Shape-shifting liquid crystals. Science 347, 949–950.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chakravarti, A., and Little, P. (2003). Nature, nurture and human disease. Nature 421, 412–414.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoffecker, J. F., Elias, S. A., and O’Rourke, D. H. (2014). Anthropology. Out of Beringia? Science 343, 979–980.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li, B., Ibrahim, M., Ge, M., Cui, Z., Sun, G., Xu, F., et al. (2014). Transcriptome analysis of Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae cultivated in vivo and co-culture with Burkholderia seminalis. Sci. Rep. 4, 5698.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Subramanian, M. N. (2013). Plastics Additives and Testing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Abdelrahman, O. H., Gelenbe, E., Gorbil, G., and Lent, R. eds. (2016). Information Sciences and Systems 2015: 30th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2015)., 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Brand, K.-W. (2011). “Sociological Perspectives on Sustainability Communication,” in Sustainability Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Theoretical Foundation, eds. J. Godemann and G. Michelsen (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 55–68.

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

Davis, J. (2015). Strange Red Streaks Spotted On Tethys. IFLScience.

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 (1976). Status of Budget Authority Involved in Three Rescissions. 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

Obakhume, D. A. (2013). An aftercare program for female survivors of domestic abuse: A grant proposal. 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

Burghardt, L. F. (2007). For Police Recruits, Training in Tolerance. New York Times, LI11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Verduzco, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chakravarti and Little, 2003; Verduzco, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chakravarti and Little, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

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