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

Fuyuno, I. (2005). Ancient foil maker wraps up mobile-phone market. Nature 436, 775.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guarente, L., and Kenyon, C. (2000). Genetic pathways that regulate ageing in model organisms. Nature 408, 255–262.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlson, R. W., Boyet, M., and Horan, M. (2007). Chondrite barium, neodymium, and samarium isotopic heterogeneity and early Earth differentiation. Science 316, 1175–1178.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kamei, M., Saunders, W. B., Bayless, K. J., Dye, L., Davis, G. E., and Weinstein, B. M. (2006). Endothelial tubes assemble from intracellular vacuoles in vivo. Nature 442, 453–456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lui, S. H. (2011). Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chaudhary, M. (2015). Practical jQuery. , ed. A. Kumar Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Meiburg, E. (2010). “Instabilities of Miscible Interfaces,” in Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition: Proceedings of the Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009 IUTAM Bookseries., eds. P. Schlatter and D. S. Henningson (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 27–34.

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

Carpineti, C. (2017). Watch: Fireball Brighter Than The Moon Tears Through Sky Over The UK. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-fireball-brighter-than-the-moon-tears-through-uk-sky/ [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 (1970). Savings Possible by Buying Automatic Data Processing Equipment or by Leasing It From Commercial Leasing Firms. 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

Evans, B. (2013). An integrated program for homeless adults with co-occurring mental and subtance use disorders: A grant proposal.

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. (2010). Baseball Since 1869; Last Pennant Only Seems That Long Ago. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Guarente and Kenyon, 2000; Fuyuno, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Guarente and Kenyon, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Kamei et al., 2006)

About the journal

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

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