How to format your references using the Frontiers in Molecular Innate Immunity citation style

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

Collins, F. S. (2004). The case for a US prospective cohort study of genes and environment. Nature 429, 475–477.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shu, J.-J., and Wang, Q.-W. (2014). Beyond Parrondo’s paradox. Sci. Rep. 4, 4244.

A journal article with 3 authors

Visel, A., Rubin, E. M., and Pennacchio, L. A. (2009). Genomic views of distant-acting enhancers. Nature 461, 199–205.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Keung, A. J., Dong, M., Schaffer, D. V., and Kumar, S. (2013). Pan-neuronal maturation but not neuronal subtype differentiation of adult neural stem cells is mechanosensitive. Sci. Rep. 3, 1817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitz, C. B., Ewing, J., and Hecht, J. (2012). Introduction to Laser Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Warminski, J., Lenci, S., Cartmell, M. P., Rega, G., and Wiercigroch, M. eds. (2012). Nonlinear Dynamic Phenomena in Mechanics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, S. P. (2016). “Cosmopolitan Citizenship,” in Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age, eds. A. E. Cudd and W.-C. Lee (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 45–58.

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 Molecular Innate Immunity.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016). Polish Man Becomes First Person Born Without A Hand To Receive A Transplant. 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 (1975). Line-item Control of Contractors’ Independent Research and Development and Bid and Proposal Costs. 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

Pelayo, A. M. (2008). A case study on the development of team -based leadership structure in the hospital industry. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). Company Town. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Collins, 2004; Shu and Wang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shu and Wang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Keung et al., 2013)

About the journal

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