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

Bender, E. (2015). Big data in biomedicine. Nature 527, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stegemann, S., and Bock, R. (2009). Exchange of genetic material between cells in plant tissue grafts. Science 324, 649–651.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xin, H., Liu, Q., and Li, B. (2014). Non-contact fiber-optical trapping of motile bacteria: dynamics observation and energy estimation. Sci. Rep. 4, 6576.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sun, C., Ma, M., Yang, J., Zhang, Y., Chen, P., Huang, W., et al. (2014). Phase-controlled synthesis of α-NiS nanoparticles confined in carbon nanorods for high performance supercapacitors. Sci. Rep. 4, 7054.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yang, S., Xu, J.-X., Li, X., and Shen, D. (2017). Iterative Learning Control for Multi-agent Systems Coordination. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Chaudhuri, A. (2016). Quantitative Modeling of Operational Risk in Finance and Banking Using Possibility Theory., ed. S. K. Ghosh. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lanning, K., Montgomery, S. A., Bright, J., Broming, L., Hudelson, M., Pauletti, R. E., et al. (2010). “Lives Through Film: 49 UP and the UP Series as a Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Change,” in The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching, ed. M. B. Gregerson (New York, NY: Springer), 77–88.

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

Hale, T. (2016). What’s Actually Inside A “Black Box” Flight Recorder? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/whats-actually-inside-a-black-box-flight-recorder/ (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 (1992). Embedded Computer Systems: Significant Software Problems on C-17 Must Be Addressed. 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

Phelps-Hillen, J. L. (2017). Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Williams, J. (2017). A Quiet Member of the Canon. New York Times, BR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bender, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Stegemann and Bock, 2009; Bender, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Stegemann and Bock, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al., 2014)

About the journal

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