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

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Dixon, K. W. (2009). Pollination and restoration. Science 325, 571–573.
A journal article with 2 authors
Gardner, A., and West, S. A. (2004). Ecology. Spite among siblings. Science 305, 1413–1414.
A journal article with 3 authors
Goldman, S. A., Nedergaard, M., and Windrem, M. S. (2012). Glial progenitor cell-based treatment and modeling of neurological disease. Science 338, 491–495.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
Hanyu-Nakamura, K., Sonobe-Nojima, H., Tanigawa, A., Lasko, P., and Nakamura, A. (2008). Drosophila Pgc protein inhibits P-TEFb recruitment to chromatin in primordial germ cells. Nature 451, 730–733.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Tostmann, K.-H. (2005). Korrosion. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
An edited book
Frangou, S. ed. (2016). Women in Academic Psychiatry: A Mind to Succeed. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Blankertz, B., Tangermann, M., Popescu, F., Krauledat, M., Fazli, S., Dónaczy, M., et al. (2008). “The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface,” in Computational Intelligence: Research Frontiers: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2008, Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, 2008, Plenary/Invited Lectures, eds. J. M. Zurada, G. G. Yen, and J. Wang (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 79–101.

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 Mucosal Immunity.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2015). How Re-Analysing The Data Of Scientific Research Can Change The Findings. 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 (1979). Programming Guide to Version 6.0 of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). 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
Dang, H. (2010). The cummulative incidence estimate versus the Kaplan Meier method in medical research. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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
Billard, M. (2010). Scouting Report. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dixon, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gardner and West, 2004; Dixon, 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Gardner and West, 2004)
  • Three or more authors: (Hanyu-Nakamura et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal titleFrontiers in Mucosal Immunity
AbbreviationFront. Immunol.
ISSN (online)1664-3224
Scope

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