How to format your references using the Frontiers in Molecular Innate Immunity citation style

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

Fuyuno, I. (2005). Ancient foil maker wraps up mobile-phone market. Nature 436, 775.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knox, A. L., and Brown, N. H. (2002). Rap1 GTPase regulation of adherens junction positioning and cell adhesion. Science 295, 1285–1288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vasudevan, S., Tong, Y., and Steitz, J. A. (2007). Switching from repression to activation: microRNAs can up-regulate translation. Science 318, 1931–1934.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Braddock, D. T., Louis, J. M., Baber, J. L., Levens, D., and Clore, G. M. (2002). Structure and dynamics of KH domains from FBP bound to single-stranded DNA. Nature 415, 1051–1056.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S. M. (2010). Running an Effective Investor Relations Department. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zatt, B. (2013). 3D Video Coding for Embedded Devices: Energy Efficient Algorithms and Architectures., eds. M. Shafique, S. Bampi, and J. Henkel. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Takahashi, N., and Sahani, D. V. (2013). “CT and MRI Features,” in Autoimmune (IgG4-related) Pancreatitis and Cholangitis, eds. M. J. Levy and S. T. Chari (New York, NY: Springer), 61–68.

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 Molecular Innate Immunity.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015). Why Do All Planetary Rings Follow This Elegant Mathematical Law? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-do-all-planetary-rings-follow-elegant-mathematical-law/ (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 (1992). Student Financial Aid: Characteristics of Jobs Provided Through the College Work-Study Program. 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

Pena, A. M. (2012). Perceptions of Spanish/English bilingual school psychologists regarding competency in assessment and future training needs. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Leland, J. (2017). Living the Bike Life. New York Times, MB7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Knox and Brown, 2002; Fuyuno, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Knox and Brown, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Braddock et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Molecular Innate Immunity
Abbreviation	Front. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	1664-3224
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