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

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

Cobb, M. (2001). Wondrous order. Nature 413, 779.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lister, A. M., and Sher, A. V. (2015). Evolution and dispersal of mammoths across the Northern Hemisphere. Science 350, 805–809.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tagkopoulos, I., Liu, Y.-C., and Tavazoie, S. (2008). Predictive behavior within microbial genetic networks. Science 320, 1313–1317.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu, B.-H., Wißmann, S., Hu, X.-M., Zhang, C., Huang, Y.-F., Li, C.-F., et al. (2014). Locality and universality of quantum memory effects. Sci. Rep. 4, 6327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gupta, K. M., and Gupta, N. (2015). Advanced Electrical and Electronics Materials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Güllich, A., and Krüger, M. eds. (2013). Sport: Das Lehrbuch für das Sportstudium., 1st Edn. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wasserman, S., Robins, G., and Steinley, D. (2007). “Statistical Models for Networks: A Brief Review of Some Recent Research,” in Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Issues, and New Directions: ICML 2006 Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 29, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, eds. E. Airoldi, D. M. Blei, S. E. Fienberg, A. Goldenberg, E. P. Xing, and A. X. Zheng (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 45–56.

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 Inflammation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Tiny Bird Tricks And Scares Predators By ‘Crying Hawk.’ IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-bird-tricks-and-scares-predators-crying-hawk-embargoed-2-jun-2015-2315-gmt/ (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 (2015). Federal Aviation Administration: Commercial Space Launch Industry Developments Present Multiple Challenges. 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

Gornto, J. S. (2009). The impact of student leadership in classroom management on student achievement. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Feeney, K. (2009). Scones Upon Scones, Sold at the Shore. New York Times, NJ11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cobb, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Cobb, 2001; Lister and Sher, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lister and Sher, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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