How to format your references using the Frontiers in NK Cell Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in NK Cell Biology. 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

Binder, P.-M. (2008). Mathematics. Frustration in complexity. Science 320, 322–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhalla, N., and Dernburg, A. F. (2005). A conserved checkpoint monitors meiotic chromosome synapsis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science 310, 1683–1686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bradley, J., Reuter, D., and Frings, S. (2001). Facilitation of calmodulin-mediated odor adaptation by cAMP-gated channel subunits. Science 294, 2176–2178.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kubikova, L., Bosikova, E., Cvikova, M., Lukacova, K., Scharff, C., and Jarvis, E. D. (2014). Basal ganglia function, stuttering, sequencing, and repair in adult songbirds. Sci. Rep. 4, 6590.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jakubith, M. (1998). Grundoperationen und chemische Reaktionstechnik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Arena, P., and Patanè, L. eds. (2014). Spatial Temporal Patterns for Action-Oriented Perception in Roving Robots II: An Insect Brain Computational Model. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, H. H., Lee, C.-O., and Park, E.-H. (2014). “Recent Advances in Domain Decomposition Methods for the Stokes Problem,” in Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XXI, eds. J. Erhel, M. J. Gander, L. Halpern, G. Pichot, T. Sassi, and O. Widlund (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 59–70.

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 NK Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Rhesus Monkeys Can Learn To Recognize Themselves In Mirrors. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rhesus-monkeys-may-learn-recognize-themselves-mirrors/ (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 (1987). Federal Patent Policy. 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

Gao, S. (2009). Characterization of the TAT cell penetrating peptide and directed evolution of new cell penetrating peptides for protein and nucleotide delivery to neuronal -like cells. New York, NY: Columbia 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

(nyt), S. K. (2002). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Terror Scare In Moscow. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Binder, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bhalla and Dernburg, 2005; Binder, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bhalla and Dernburg, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kubikova et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in NK Cell Biology
Abbreviation	Front. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	1664-3224
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