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

Abbott, A. (2007). How to make it in Moscow. Nature 448, 983.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gonnermann, H. M., and Mukhopadhyay, S. (2009). Preserving noble gases in a convecting mantle. Nature 459, 560–563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers, J. A., Lagally, M. G., and Nuzzo, R. G. (2011). Synthesis, assembly and applications of semiconductor nanomembranes. Nature 477, 45–53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Meshorer, E., Erb, C., Gazit, R., Pavlovsky, L., Kaufer, D., Friedman, A., et al. (2002). Alternative splicing and neuritic mRNA translocation under long-term neuronal hypersensitivity. Science 295, 508–512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kharmanda, G., and El Hami, A. (2016). Reliability in Biomechanics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Backhaus, J. G. ed. (2012). Two Centuries of Local Autonomy. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferris, J. S., Winer, S. L., and Grofman, B. (2016). “The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867–2011,” in The Political Economy of Social Choices, eds. M. Gallego and N. Schofield (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 93–122.

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, D. (2017). People With Creative Personalities Really Do See The World Differently. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/people-with-creative-personalities-really-do-see-the-world-differently/ (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 (1966). The Audit Function in the Automatic Data Processing System. 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

Murray, R. W. (2010). The Florida Migrant Education Program: An analysis of programmatic and expenditure practices. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University.

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

Sisario, B. (2017). The Killers’ 5th Album Tops Billboard Chart. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2007; Gonnermann and Mukhopadhyay, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gonnermann and Mukhopadhyay, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Meshorer 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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