How to format your references using the Frontiers in Food Microbiology citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2002). Clearing your own path. Nature 420, 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heo, J. B., and Sung, S. (2011). Vernalization-mediated epigenetic silencing by a long intronic noncoding RNA. Science 331, 76–79.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alarousu, E., AlSaggaf, A., and Jabbour, G. E. (2013). Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Sci. Rep. 3, 1562.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhuang, J., Yeoh, W. K., Cui, X., Xu, X., Du, Y., Shi, Z., et al. (2014). Unabridged phase diagram for single-phased FeSe(x)Te(1-x) thin films. Sci. Rep. 4, 7273.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vanclef, J. (2013). The Wealth Code 2.0. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jarke, M., Mylopoulos, J., Quix, C., Rolland, C., Manolopoulos, Y., Mouratidis, H., et al. eds. (2014). Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 26th International Conference, CAiSE 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 16-20, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Greenstone, B. (2009). “Brian Greenstone’s Jedi Master List for Game Optimization,” in iPhone Games Projects, eds. J. Bondo, A. Fothergill, B. Greenstone, O. Hennessy, M. Kasprzak, M. Lee, et al. (Berkeley, CA: Apress), 99–127.

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 Food Microbiology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). Track Near-Earth Objects On Asteroid Day 2016. IFLScience.

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 (1991). Stock Market Automation: Exchanges Have Increased Systems’ Capacities Since the 1987 Market Crash. 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

Martinez, A. M. (2010). Moving in foster care: Voices of adults who experienced multiple foster care placements in childhood. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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). Still Searching for Equilibrium In the Work-Life Balancing Act. New York Times, 101.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2002; Heo and Sung, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Heo and Sung, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Zhuang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Food Microbiology
Abbreviation	Front. Microbiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-302X
Scope	Microbiology Microbiology (medical)