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

Solow, A. R. (2013). Global warming: A call for peace on climate and conflict. Nature 497, 179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Neill, M. J., and O’Neill, R. J. (2014). Genomics: Something to swing about. Nature 513, 174–175.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, R., Willett, S. D., and Goren, L. (2015). In situ low-relief landscape formation as a result of river network disruption. Nature 520, 526–529.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gavin, A. L., Hoebe, K., Duong, B., Ota, T., Martin, C., Beutler, B., et al. (2006). Adjuvant-enhanced antibody responses in the absence of toll-like receptor signaling. Science 314, 1936–1938.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pick, J. B. (2012). Geo-Business GIS in the Digital Organization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jarnicki, M. (2015). Continuous Nowhere Differentiable Functions: The Monsters of Analysis., 1st ed. 2015, ed. P. Pflug. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang, Y. H., and Paquet, A. C. (2005). “Preprocessing Two-Color Spotted Arrays,” in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor, eds. R. Gentleman, V. J. Carey, W. Huber, R. A. Irizarry, and S. Dudoit (New York, NY: Springer), 49–69.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). Massive Chunk of Glacier Breaks Off Into Ocean. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/massive-chunk-glacier-breaks-ocean/ (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 (1989). Port Development: Sponsors Have Not Used User Fee Financing to Date. 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

Wolzinger, R. (2010). Strengthening Career and Technical Education in the California Community College System during the financial and labor market crisis. 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

Kelly Beatty, J., and Special to The New (1985). EARLY DATA ARRIVE FROM PROBE ON VENUS. New York Times, C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Solow, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Solow, 2013; O’Neill and O’Neill, 2014).

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

Two authors: (O’Neill and O’Neill, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gavin et al., 2006)

About the journal

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