How to format your references using the Frontiers in Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy. 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

Lucchitta, I. (2013). Comment on “Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon.” Science 340, 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stamm, L. M., and Goldberg, M. B. (2011). Microbiology. Establishing the secretion hierarchy. Science 331, 1147–1148.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhee, H., Polak, L., and Fuchs, E. (2006). Lhx2 maintains stem cell character in hair follicles. Science 312, 1946–1949.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Martiniano, R., Coelho, C., Ferreira, M. T., Neves, M. J., Pinhasi, R., and Bradley, D. G. (2014). Genetic evidence of African slavery at the beginning of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Sci. Rep. 4, 5994.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silk, R. D., and Lintott, J. W. (2011). Managing Foundations and Charitable Trusts. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lajtha, A., Oja, S. S., Schousboe, A., and Saransaari, P. eds. (2007). Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Amino Acids and Peptides in the Nervous System. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Kibler, B., Fatome, J., Finot, C., and Millot, G. (2016). “Experiments on Breathers in Nonlinear Fibre Optics,” in Rogue and Shock Waves in Nonlinear Dispersive Media, eds. M. Onorato, S. Resitori, and F. Baronio (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 89–115.

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 Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014). Watch A Giant Leech Swallow A Giant Worm Whole. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-red-worm-eating-leech-filmed/ (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 (1997). Health, Education and Human Services Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments. 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

Takusi, G. S. (2010). A quantitative analysis of the extrinsic and intrinsic turnover factors of relational database support professionals. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Dwyer, K. P. (2005). Taking Action Against Discrimination. New York Times, 103.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lucchitta, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Stamm and Goldberg, 2011; Lucchitta, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Stamm and Goldberg, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Martiniano et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy
Abbreviation	Front. Microbiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-302X
Scope	Microbiology Microbiology (medical)