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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in T 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

Catterall, W. A. (2001). Physiology. A one-domain voltage-gated sodium channel in bacteria. Science 294, 2306–2308.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ims, R. A., and Andreassen, H. P. (2000). Spatial synchronization of vole population dynamics by predatory birds. Nature 408, 194–196.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin, J., Sun, Y., and Ge, F. (2014). Reduced plant nutrition under elevated CO₂ depresses the immunocompetence of cotton bollworm against its endoparasite. Sci. Rep. 4, 4538.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Palatnik, J. F., Allen, E., Wu, X., Schommer, C., Schwab, R., Carrington, J. C., et al. (2003). Control of leaf morphogenesis by microRNAs. Nature 425, 257–263.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoffmann, K. (2005). System Integration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Patt, Y. N., Foglia, P., Duesterwald, E., Faraboschi, P., and Martorell, X. eds. (2010). High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers: 5th International Conference, HiPEAC 2010, Pisa, Italy, January 25-27, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Verdi, C. (2013). “Stefan Problems and Numerical Analysis,” in Analysis and Numerics of Partial Differential Equations, eds. F. Brezzi, P. Colli Franzone, U. Gianazza, and G. Gilardi (Milano: Springer), 37–45.

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 T Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Watch Cheetah Give Birth To Four Cubs. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-cheetah-give-birth-four-cubs/ (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 (2000). Tax Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS’ March 7, 2000, Expenditure Plan. 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

Poland, M. C. (2010). New cluster-based routing and multi-channel MAC protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks. 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

Vecsey, G. (2009). The Highest Payroll, but Still Short a Run. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Catterall, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Ims and Andreassen, 2000; Catterall, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Ims and Andreassen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Palatnik et al., 2003)

About the journal

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