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

Macilwain, C. (2010). World view: Save British science, again. Nature 467, 269.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emery, N. J., and Clayton, N. S. (2004). The mentality of crows: convergent evolution of intelligence in corvids and apes. Science 306, 1903–1907.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gahan, L. J., Gould, F., and Heckel, D. G. (2001). Identification of a gene associated with Bt resistance in Heliothis virescens. Science 293, 857–860.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dreber, A., Rand, D. G., Fudenberg, D., and Nowak, M. A. (2008). Winners don’t punish. Nature 452, 348–351.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grous, A. (2012). Fracture Mechanics 2. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Soiffer, R. J. ed. (2008). Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Plociniczak, H., and Eisenbach, S. (2010). “JErlang: Erlang with Joins,” in Coordination Models and Languages: 12th International Conference, COORDINATION 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 7-9, 2010. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. D. Clarke and G. Agha (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 61–75.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Of Course Space Exploration Is Worth The Money. 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 (1990). Airline Competition: Passenger Facility Charges Represent a New Funding Source for Airports. 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

Dhah, S. (2015). The relationship between job-embedded professional development and special education teacher self-efficacy in hard-to-staff middle schools.

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

Saslow, L. (2007). A Virus Endangers Trout at Big Hatchery. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Emery and Clayton, 2004; Macilwain, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Emery and Clayton, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Dreber et al., 2008)

About the journal

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

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