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

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

Sperandio, V. (2012). Microbiology. Virulence or competition? Science 336, 1238–1239.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickens, M., and Kwak, J. E. (2008). Molecular biology. A tail tale for U. Science 319, 1344–1345.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zorzi, M., Priftis, K., and Umiltà, C. (2002). Brain damage: neglect disrupts the mental number line. Nature 417, 138–139.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Prucca, C. G., Slavin, I., Quiroga, R., Elías, E. V., Rivero, F. D., Saura, A., et al. (2008). Antigenic variation in Giardia lamblia is regulated by RNA interference. Nature 456, 750–754.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertin, E., Crespi, N., and Pujolle, G. (2013). Architecture and Governance for Communication Services. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

McGonagle, J. J. (2012). Proactive Intelligence: The Successful Executive’s Guide to Intelligence., ed. C. M. Vella. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ithier, G., Nguyen, F., Collin, E., Boulant, N., Meeson, P. J., Joyez, P., et al. (2007). “Decoherence of a Quantum Bit Circuit,” in Quantum Decoherence: Poincaré Seminar 2005, eds. B. Duplantier, J.-M. Raimond, and V. Rivasseau (Basel: Birkhäuser), 125–149.

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 Antigen Presenting Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Watch this Robot Jump like a Frog. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-robot-jump-frog/ (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 (1990). Space Communications: Performance of NASA’s White Sands Ground Terminal. 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

Park, J. K. (2012). Target Identification, Therapeutic Application and Maturation Mechanism of microRNAs. Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Poniewozik, J. (2016). In Battle of Candidates, Lauer Is the Loser. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sperandio, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Wickens and Kwak, 2008; Sperandio, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Wickens and Kwak, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Prucca et al., 2008)

About the journal

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