How to format your references using the Frontiers in Fungi and Their Interactions citation style

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

Gizis, J. E. (2001). Astronomy. Brown dwarfs. Science 294, 801–802.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacPherson, R. D., and Srolovitz, D. J. (2007). The von Neumann relation generalized to coarsening of three-dimensional microstructures. Nature 446, 1053–1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bortnik, J., Thorne, R. M., and Meredith, N. P. (2008). The unexpected origin of plasmaspheric hiss from discrete chorus emissions. Nature 452, 62–66.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jost, J. D., Home, J. P., Amini, J. M., Hanneke, D., Ozeri, R., Langer, C., et al. (2009). Entangled mechanical oscillators. Nature 459, 683–685.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, P., and Burger, J. (2009). Configuring SAP® ERP Financials and Controlling. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Liu, Q., Bai, Q., Giugni, S., Williamson, D., and Taylor, J. eds. (2013). Data Provenance and Data Management in eScience. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Beal, T. (2016). “The Flowering of the Relationship,” in China, New Zealand, and the Complexities of Globalization: Asymmetry, Complementarity, and Competition, ed. Y. Kang (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US), 103–140.

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 Fungi and Their Interactions.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). Astronomers Spot Huge Galaxy Cluster From The Early Universe. 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 (1989). Transportation Infrastructure: Reshaping the Federal Role Poses Significant Challenge for Policy Makers. 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

McKelvey, D. M. (2008). Relationships between attitudes of school-based administrators and inclusion practices of students with autism/Asperger’s syndrome. 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

Cowen, T. (2015). Stuck in Line? Think of What You Stand to Gain. New York Times, BU3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gizis, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Gizis, 2001; MacPherson and Srolovitz, 2007).

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

Two authors: (MacPherson and Srolovitz, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Jost et al., 2009)

About the journal

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