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

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

Segall, P. (2012). Geophysics. Understanding earthquakes. Science 336, 676–677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhattacharya, K., and James, R. D. (2005). Applied physics. The material is the machine. Science 307, 53–54.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heeney, J. L., Dalgleish, A. G., and Weiss, R. A. (2006). Origins of HIV and the evolution of resistance to AIDS. Science 313, 462–466.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schmidt, D. N., Thierstein, H. R., Bollmann, J., and Schiebel, R. (2004). Abiotic forcing of plankton evolution in the Cenozoic. Science 303, 207–210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sigrist, J.-F. (2015). Fluid-Structure Interaction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Floudas, C. A., and Pardalos, P. M. eds. (2009). Encyclopedia of Optimization., Second Edition. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Cao, Z. (2008). “Equivalence Checking for a Finite Higher Order π-Calculus,” in Tests and Proofs: Second International Conference, TAP 2008, Prato, Italy, April 9-11, 2008. Proceedings, eds. B. Beckert and R. Hähnle (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 30–47.

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 Mucosal Immunity.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016). How’s Your Walnut, Mate? Why Men Don’t Like To Talk About Their Enlarged Prostate. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-s-your-walnut-mate-why-men-don-t-talk-about-their-enlarged-prostate/ (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 (2004). Information Technology: Foundational Steps Being Taken to Make Needed FBI Systems Modernization Management Improvements. 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

Kennedy-Reid, S. K. (2012). Exploring the Habitus: A Phenomenological Study of Transformative Learning Processes. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Sparer, M. S. (2017). The New Obamacare: Medicaid. New York Times, A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Segall, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bhattacharya and James, 2005; Segall, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bhattacharya and James, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Schmidt et al., 2004)

About the journal

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