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

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

Smyty, R. (2000). Beauty is ova-rated. Nature 404, 31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kohno, M., and Koizumi, Y. (2000). Tokaimura accident. Neutron dose estimates from 5-yen coins. Nature 406, 693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Francis, N. J., Kingston, R. E., and Woodcock, C. L. (2004). Chromatin compaction by a polycomb group protein complex. Science 306, 1574–1577.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Studt, F., Abild-Pedersen, F., Bligaard, T., Sørensen, R. Z., Christensen, C. H., and Nørskov, J. K. (2008). Identification of non-precious metal alloy catalysts for selective hydrogenation of acetylene. Science 320, 1320–1322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (2003). Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Quirk, S. (2009). Deep-Sky Video Astronomy., ed. S. Massey. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lesser, A., Schulze, S., Niehuis, R., Kähler, C., and Lieser, J. (2013). “Analytical Design of an Inlet Distortion Generator and Its Experimental and Numerical Validation,” in New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics VIII: Contributions to the 17th STAB/DGLR Symposium Berlin, Germany 2010, eds. A. Dillmann, G. Heller, H.-P. Kreplin, W. Nitsche, and I. Peltzer (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 33–41.

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 Tolerance.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Increased Typhoon Intensity Linked To Ocean Warming. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/increased-typhoon-intensity-linked-ocean-warming/ (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 (1980). Consolidation of American Forces Radio and Television Service--Washington and Los Angeles Broadcasting Facilities. 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

Stewart, A. M. (2014). Estimation of urban-enhanced infiltration and groundwater recharge, Sierra Vista subbasin, southeast Arizona USA. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Kershner, I., and Hubbard, B. (2016). Hezbollah Is Using U.S.-Made Armor in Syria, Israel Says. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smyty, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kohno and Koizumi, 2000; Smyty, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kohno and Koizumi, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Studt et al., 2008)

About the journal

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