How to format your references using the Frontiers in NK Cell Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in NK Cell Biology. 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

Carroll, S. (2004). Insignificance. Nature 429, 27.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hetzel, R., and Hampel, A. (2005). Slip rate variations on normal faults during glacial-interglacial changes in surface loads. Nature 435, 81–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roy, K., Bandyopadhyay, S., and Atulasimha, J. (2013). Binary switching in a “symmetric” potential landscape. Sci. Rep. 3, 3038.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jalilavi, M., Zoveidavianpoor, M., Attarhamed, F., Junin, R., and Mohsin, R. (2014). Artificial weathering as a function of CO2 injection in Pahang Sandstone Malaysia: investigation of dissolution rate in surficial condition. Sci. Rep. 4, 3645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grose, M. (2016). Construction Law in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gutbrod, R. (2012). The Software Dilemma: Balancing Creativity and Control on the Path to Sustainable Software., ed. C. Wiele. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhu, J., Li, Y., He, G., and Xia, X. (2007). “An Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware Based on Multiplexer Module Array,” in Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware: 7th International Conference, ICES 2007, Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007 Proceedings, eds. L. Kang, Y. Liu, and S. Zeng (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 35–44.

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 NK Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017). Interactive Map Reveals The Countries Least Resistant To Superbug Infections. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/interactive-map-reveals-the-countries-least-resistant-to-superbug-infections/ (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 (1974). Charges Made by the National Federation of the Blind Against the National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the Blind and Visually Handicapped. 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

Christian, T. M. (2012). Under the Navajo stars: The intersection of mythic narratives, archaeology, and star ceilings. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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). Another Summer, Same Dark Stage. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carroll, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Carroll, 2004; Hetzel and Hampel, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Hetzel and Hampel, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Jalilavi et al., 2014)

About the journal

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