How to format your references using the Frontiers in Immunotherapies and Vaccines citation style

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

Russo, E. (2004). Bricks and mortar. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Nature 431, 882.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arlot-Bonnemains, Y., and Prigent, C. (2002). Cell cycle. A trigger for centrosome duplication. Science 295, 455–456.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conard, N. J., Malina, M., and Münzel, S. C. (2009). New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany. Nature 460, 737–740.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Högberg, P., Nordgren, A., Buchmann, N., Taylor, A. F., Ekblad, A., Högberg, M. N., et al. (2001). Large-scale forest girdling shows that current photosynthesis drives soil respiration. Nature 411, 789–792.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mason, R. P. (2013). Trace Metals in Aquatic Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Salvadori, L. ed. (2011). Stability Problems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ellis-Monaghan, J. A., and Moffatt, I. (2013). “Interactions with Graph Polynomials,” in Graphs on Surfaces: Dualities, Polynomials, and Knots, ed. I. Moffatt (New York, NY: Springer), 61–99.

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 Immunotherapies and Vaccines.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). The Ogre-Faced Spider Throws A Net Over Its Prey Like A Gladiator. 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 (1993). Self-Sufficiency: Opportunities and Disincentives on the Road to Economic Independence. 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

Powers, K. L. (2012). Real-time video streaming: Impact on maternal anxiety and the maternal-infant bond. 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

Yanagihara, H. (2017). Nowhere Man. New York Times, M2128.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russo, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Arlot-Bonnemains and Prigent, 2002; Russo, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Arlot-Bonnemains and Prigent, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Högberg et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Immunotherapies and Vaccines
Abbreviation	Front. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	1664-3224
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