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:

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

Knapp, S. (2013). Evolution. What, where, and when? Science 341, 1182–1184.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tam, W. Y., and Ma, C. H. E. (2014). Bipolar/rod-shaped microglia are proliferating microglia with distinct M1/M2 phenotypes. Sci. Rep. 4, 7279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yan, W., Smith, C., and Cheng, L. (2013). Expanded activity of dimer nucleases by combining ZFN and TALEN for genome editing. Sci. Rep. 3, 2376.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

McNeil, B. I., Matear, R. J., Key, R. M., Bullister, J. L., and Sarmiento, J. L. (2003). Anthropogenic CO2 uptake by the ocean based on the global chlorofluorocarbon data set. Science 299, 235–239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holt, J. (2013). The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Wei, R. ed. (2016). Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Humphries, B., and Abel, T. (2014). “Modelling the Dispersion of Pollutants: Two Case Studies,” in Air Quality Management: Canadian Perspectives on a Global Issue, eds. E. Taylor and A. McMillan (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 99–127.

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

Andrews, R. (2017). California Just Signed A New Climate Change Agreement With China. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/california-signed-climate-change-agreement-china/ (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 (1991). FAA Procurement: Major Data-Processing Project Is Now Ready to Proceed. 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

Ramakrishnan, L. (2009). Multi-level adaptation for performability in dynamic web service workflows. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Walsh, M. W. (2011). Illinois Plan For Pensions Questioned. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knapp, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Knapp, 2013; Tam and Ma, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tam and Ma, 2014)
Three or more authors: (McNeil et al., 2003)

About the journal

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