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

Evans, J. A. (2013). Computer science. Future science. Science 342, 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ausländer, S., and Fussenegger, M. (2014). Synthetic biology. Dynamic genome engineering in living cells. Science 346, 813–814.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bick, A. G., Calvo, S. E., and Mootha, V. K. (2012). Evolutionary diversity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter. Science 336, 886.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bouwens, R. J., Illingworth, G. D., Labbe, I., Oesch, P. A., Trenti, M., Carollo, C. M., et al. (2011). A candidate redshift z ≈ 10 galaxy and rapid changes in that population at an age of 500 Myr. Nature 469, 504–507.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoffman, R. V. (2004). Organic Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Renz, M., Shahabi, C., Zhou, X., and Cheema, M. A. eds. (2015). Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 20th International Conference, DASFAA 2015, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chou, E., Güntürk, C. S., Krahmer, F., Saab, R., and Yılmaz, Ö. (2015). “Noise-Shaping Quantization Methods for Frame-Based and Compressive Sampling Systems,” in Sampling Theory, a Renaissance: Compressive Sensing and Other Developments, ed. G. E. Pfander (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 157–184.

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

Fang, J. (2014). Black Hole Lined by String of Star Clusters. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/black-hole-lined-string-star-clusters/ (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 (1977). Federal Agencies’ Contracting for Research and Development in the Private, Profitmaking Sector. 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

Kranz, T. E. (2017). Body, Land, and Memory: Counter-Narratives in the Poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Natasha Trethewey. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Paulson, M. (2017). ‘Mean Girls’ Musical Is Broadway Bound. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Evans, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Evans, 2013; Ausländer and Fussenegger, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ausländer and Fussenegger, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bouwens et al., 2011)

About the journal

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