How to format your references using the Frontiers in Chemoattractants citation style

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

Stevenson, D. J. (2001). Planetary science. Jupiter and its moons. Science 294, 71–72.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raman, K. V., and Moodera, J. S. (2015). Materials chemistry: A magnetic facelift for non-magnetic metals. Nature 524, 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bizzarro, M., Baker, J. A., and Haack, H. (2004). Mg isotope evidence for contemporaneous formation of chondrules and refractory inclusions. Nature 431, 275–278.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Loarie, S. R., Duffy, P. B., Hamilton, H., Asner, G. P., Field, C. B., and Ackerly, D. D. (2009). The velocity of climate change. Nature 462, 1052–1055.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woods, D. R. (2005). Successful Trouble Shooting for Process Engineers. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Fratta, L., Schulzrinne, H., Takahashi, Y., and Spaniol, O. eds. (2009). NETWORKING 2009: 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference, Aachen, Germany, May 11-15, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jacobs, D. S., and Agranat, J. S. (2014). “Advances in Contact Lens for the Treatment of Ocular Surface Disease and the Corneal Ectasias,” in Advances in Medical and Surgical Cornea: From Diagnosis to Procedure, ed. B. H. Jeng (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 57–69.

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 Chemoattractants.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017). Swearing Makes You Physically Stronger, According To Strange Study. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/swearing-makes-you-physically-stronger-according-to-strange-study/ (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 (1989). Mass Transit Grants: UMTA Needs to Increase Safety Focus at Local Transit Authority. 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

Chanderbhan-Forde, S. (2010). Asian Indian mothers’ involvement in their children’s schooling: An analysis of social and cultural capital. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Brantley, B. (2017). Remembering Mama, as She Forgets. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stevenson, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Stevenson, 2001; Raman and Moodera, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Raman and Moodera, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Loarie et al., 2009)

About the journal

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