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

Smaglik, P. (2001). Big or small neuroscience? Nature 414, 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyman, A. H., and Simons, K. (2011). The new cell biology: Beyond HeLa cells. Nature 480, 34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubilier, N., McFall-Ngai, M., and Zhao, L. (2015). Microbiology: Create a global microbiome effort. Nature 526, 631–634.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lu, B., Su, Y., Das, S., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Liu, J., et al. (2009). Peptide neurotransmitters activate a cation channel complex of NALCN and UNC-80. Nature 457, 741–744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor, D. (2009). God, Evil, and Design. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Villatoro, D., Sabater-Mir, J., and Sichman, J. S. eds. (2012). Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XII: International Workshop, MABS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lewis, B. S., and Keuchel, M. (2014). “Evaluation of Capsule Endoscopic Images,” in Video Capsule Endoscopy: A Reference Guide and Atlas, eds. M. Keuchel, F. Hagenmüller, and H. Tajiri (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 31–47.

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). Diabetes Drug Boosts Fertility In Obese Female Mice. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/diabetes-drug-boosts-fertility-obese-female-mice/ (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 (2007). NASA: Progress Made on Strategic Human Capital Management, but Future Program Challenges Remain. 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

Blazer, A. E. (2003). “I Am Otherwise”: The Romance Between Poetry and Theory After the Death of the Subject. Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Wagner, J. (2017). Who’s at Second, And Now Third? It’s the Catcher. New York Times, B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2001; Hyman and Simons, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hyman and Simons, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2009)

About the journal

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