How to format your references using the Frontiers in Alloimmunity and Transplantation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Alloimmunity and Transplantation. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Marcus, P. S. (2004). Prediction of a global climate change on Jupiter. Nature 428, 828–831.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morris, T., and Podsiadlowski, P. (2007). The triple-ring nebula around SN 1987A: fingerprint of a binary merger. Science 315, 1103–1106.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sword, G. A., Lorch, P. D., and Gwynne, D. T. (2005). Insect behaviour: migratory bands give crickets protection. Nature 433, 703.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang, X., Hu, C., Bai, H., Yan, Y., Li, J., Yang, H., et al. (2013). Construction of self-supported three-dimensional TiO2 sheeted networks with enhanced photocatalytic activity. Sci. Rep. 3, 3563.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, D. A. (2004). Galois Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lee, S.-G., Peng, Z., Zhou, X., Moon, Y.-S., Unland, R., and Yoo, J. eds. (2012). Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 17th International Conference, DASFAA 2012, Busan, South Korea, April 15-19, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Deantoni, J., Brun, C., Caillaud, B., France, R. B., Karsai, G., Nierstrasz, O., et al. (2015). “Domain Globalization: Using Languages to Support Technical and Social Coordination,” in Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages: International Dagstuhl Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, October 5-10, 2014, Revised Papers, eds. B. Combemale, B. H. C. Cheng, R. B. France, J.-M. Jézéquel, and B. Rumpe (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 70–87.

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 Alloimmunity and Transplantation.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017). Scientists Just Dealt A Major Blow To The Search For Life. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-just-dealt-a-major-blow-to-the-search-for-life/ (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 (2005). Federal Aviation Administration: Stronger Architecture Program Needed to Guide Systems Modernization Efforts. 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

Mani, V. (2011). Empirical study of link between operations and financial performance for retailers. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Krauss, C. (2015). Breakdown at BP Refinery Strains Midwest Gas Prices. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marcus, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Marcus, 2004; Morris and Podsiadlowski, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Morris and Podsiadlowski, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Alloimmunity and Transplantation
Abbreviation	Front. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	1664-3224
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