How to format your references using the Frontiers in Immunological Memory citation style

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

Jaenicke, R. (2005). Abundance of cellular material and proteins in the atmosphere. Science 308, 73.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoffman, K. L., and McNaughton, B. L. (2002). Coordinated reactivation of distributed memory traces in primate neocortex. Science 297, 2070–2073.

A journal article with 3 authors

Postma, E., Griffith, S. C., and Brooks, R. (2006). Evolutionary genetics: evolution of mate choice in the wild. Nature 444, E16; discussion E16-7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Klajn, R., Bishop, K. J. M., Fialkowski, M., Paszewski, M., Campbell, C. J., Gray, T. P., et al. (2007). Plastic and moldable metals by self-assembly of sticky nanoparticle aggregates. Science 316, 261–264.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wren, C. (2011). Concise Guide to Pediatric Arrhythmias. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Akoka, J., Liddle, S. W., Song, I.-Y., Bertolotto, M., Comyn-Wattiau, I., Heuvel, W.-J. van D., et al. eds. (2005). Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2005 Workshops AOIS, BP-UML, CoMoGIS, eCOMO, and QoIS, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liénard, E., Ban, G., Blieck, J., Durand, D., Duval, F., Fléchard, X., et al. (2007). “The LPCTrap experiment: measurement of the β-ν angular correlation in 6He using a transparent Paul trap,” in TCP 2006: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2006) held in Parksville, Canada, 3–8 September, 2006, eds. J. Dilling, M. Comyn, J. Thompson, and G. Gwinner (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 29–33.

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 Immunological Memory.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017). Ancient Giant Flightless Goose Likely Used Its Wings To Batter Opponents Instead. 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 (1988). Wallop-Breaux Trust Fund. 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

Fichera, M. (2015). Transport of seawater and its influence on the transverse tensile strength of unidirectional composite materials. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University.

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

Johnson, G. (2014). A Future as Clouded as Their Past. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jaenicke, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hoffman and McNaughton, 2002; Jaenicke, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Hoffman and McNaughton, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Klajn et al., 2007)

About the journal

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