How to format your references using the Frontiers in Plant-Microbe Interaction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Plant-Microbe Interaction. 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

Livio, M. (2011). Lost in translation: Mystery of the missing text solved. Nature 479, 171–173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Broza, M., and Halpern, M. (2001). Pathogen reservoirs. Chironomid egg masses and Vibrio cholerae. Nature 412, 40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fändrich, M., Fletcher, M. A., and Dobson, C. M. (2001). Amyloid fibrils from muscle myoglobin. Nature 410, 165–166.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Omatsu-Kanbe, M., Nishino, Y., Nozuchi, N., Sugihara, H., and Matsuura, H. (2014). Prion protein- and cardiac troponin T-marked interstitial cells from the adult myocardium spontaneously develop into beating cardiomyocytes. Sci. Rep. 4, 7301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker, H. K., and English, P. (2011). Capital Budgeting Valuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Park, D.-Y. ed. (2016). Legal Issues on Climate Change and International Trade Law. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Okecha, A. A., and Newton-Fisher, N. E. (2006). “The Diet of Olive Baboons (Papio anubis) in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda,” in Primates of Western Uganda, eds. N. E. Newton-Fisher, H. Notman, J. D. Paterson, and V. Reynolds (New York, NY: Springer), 61–73.

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 Plant-Microbe Interaction.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). House Science Committee Tweets Breitbart Article Denouncing Climate Change. 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 (1994). European Aeronautics: Strong Government Presence in Industry Structure and Research and Development Support. 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

Gullett, D. L. (2017). Lived Experience of Suffering through the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Fiske, I. H. (1905). CHATTERTON. New York Times, REVIEW OF BOOKSBR509.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Livio, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Broza and Halpern, 2001; Livio, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Broza and Halpern, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Omatsu-Kanbe et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Plant-Microbe Interaction
Abbreviation	Front. Plant Sci.
ISSN (online)	1664-462X
Scope	Plant Science