How to format your references using the Frontiers in Immunology citation style

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

Lake JA. Disappearing act. Nature (2007) 446:983.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klenk H-D, Becker S. VACCINES. Ebola virus vaccines--preparing for the unexpected. Science (2015) 349:693–694.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-David O, Cohen G, Fineberg J. The dynamics of the onset of frictional slip. Science (2010) 330:211–214.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Musser RO, Hum-Musser SM, Eichenseer H, Peiffer M, Ervin G, Murphy JB, Felton GW. Herbivory: caterpillar saliva beats plant defences. Nature (2002) 416:599–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zepernick H-J, Finger A. Pseudo Random Signal Processing. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd,. (2005).

An edited book

Noble J, Johnson R eds. Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2009). IX, 234 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Mathis G, Beckh S, Görg C. “Lung Consolidation.,” In: Mathis G, editor. Chest Sonography. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2011). p. 55–114

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 Immunology.

Blog post

Hale T. Stephen Hawking Has Another Message For The Rest Of Humanity. IFLScience (2016) https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/stephen-hawking-has-another-message-for-the-rest-of-humanity/ [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. Airport Passenger Screening: Preliminary Observations on Progress Made and Challenges Remaining. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (2003).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Penix-Tadsen P. Marketing marginality: Resistance and commodification in contemporary Latin American cultural production. [Doctoral dissertation]. New York, NY: Columbia University (2009).

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

Midler T, Leland J. On Any Given Wednesday. New York Times (2017)MB7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

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

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