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

Buetow, K. H. (2005). Cyberinfrastructure: empowering a “third way” in biomedical research. Science 308, 821–824.

A journal article with 2 authors

Irion, U., and St Johnston, D. (2007). bicoid RNA localization requires specific binding of an endosomal sorting complex. Nature 445, 554–558.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaufman, Y. J., Tanré, D., and Boucher, O. (2002). A satellite view of aerosols in the climate system. Nature 419, 215–223.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rambukkana, A., Zanazzi, G., Tapinos, N., and Salzer, J. L. (2002). Contact-dependent demyelination by Mycobacterium leprae in the absence of immune cells. Science 296, 927–931.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauldry, W. C. (2009). Introduction to Real Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Adan, O. C. G., and Samson, R. A. eds. (2011). Fundamentals of mold growth in indoor environments and strategies for healthy living. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Broch Johnsen, E., Owe, O., Schlatte, R., and Tapia Tarifa, S. L. (2011). “Validating Timed Models of Deployment Components with Parametric Concurrency,” in Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software: International Conference, FoVeOOS 2010, Paris, France, June 28-30, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, eds. B. Beckert and C. Marché (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 46–60.

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

Andrews, R. (2016). San Andreas Fault Is “Locked, Loaded And Ready To Go,” Says Leading Seismologist. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/san-andreas-fault-locked-loaded-and-ready-go-says-leading-seismologist/ (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). Aviation Security: Federal Action Needed to Strengthen Domestic Air Cargo Security. 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

Sumi, S. J. (2015). Eco-Hydrology Driven Evaluation of Statistically Downscaled Precipitation CMIP5 Climate Model Simulations over Louisiana. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Baker, L. (2006). High Mountain Hiking With a Golden Reward. New York Times, F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buetow, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Buetow, 2005; Irion and St Johnston, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Irion and St Johnston, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Rambukkana et al., 2002)

About the journal

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