How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 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

Irion, R. (2000). AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING: Cool Comets, Barren Clusters, and a Maxed-Out Universe. Science 288, 2121–2124.

A journal article with 2 authors

Porcello, D., and Hsi, S. (2013). Science education. Crowdsourcing and curating online education resources. Science 341, 240–241.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKnight, S., Beyer, A., and Gall, J. (2012). Retrospective. Oscar Miller (1925-2012). Science 335, 1457.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ren, D., Navarro, B., Xu, H., Yue, L., Shi, Q., and Clapham, D. E. (2001). A prokaryotic voltage-gated sodium channel. Science 294, 2372–2375.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Utsuro, M., and Ignatovich, V. K. (2010). Handbook of Neutron Optics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Rowley, C. K. (2008). Readings in Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy., ed. F. G. Schneider. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Ammari, H., and Kang, H. (2007). “Full Asymptotic Formula for the Potentials,” in Polarization and Moment Tensors: With Applications to Inverse Problems and Effective Medium Theory, ed. H. Kang (New York, NY: Springer), 129–144.

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 Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014). Death Star Moon Could Have An Ocean. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/even-tiny-mimas-may-have-ocean/ (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 (1986). The Condition of Information on Education. 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

Rodriguez, J. M. (2008). Navy Supply Corps officer’s perspective on effective leadership. 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

Paulson, M. (2017). The Flea Makes a Big Move in TriBeCa. New York Times, C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Irion, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Irion, 2000; Porcello and Hsi, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Porcello and Hsi, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ren et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Abbreviation	Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.
ISSN (online)	2235-2988
Scope	Immunology Microbiology Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)