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

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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Reinventing the silk road. Nature 428, 236–237.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gurnett, D. A., and Kurth, W. S. (2005). Electron plasma oscillations upstream of the solar wind termination shock. Science 309, 2025–2027.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshida, N., Omukai, K., and Hernquist, L. (2008). Protostar formation in the early universe. Science 321, 669–671.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

van de Loosdrecht, M., Bouzouggar, A., Humphrey, L., Posth, C., Barton, N., Aximu-Petri, A., et al. (2018). Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations. Science 360, 548–552.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight, J. G., and Singh, K. (2014). Environmental Management of Energy from Biofuels and Biofeedstocks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mast, F., and Jäncke, L. eds. (2007). Spatial Processing in Navigation, Imagery and Perception. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Charles, K. E., and Egan, V. (2008). “Sensational and Extreme Interests in Adolescents,” in Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes, ed. R. N. Kocsis (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press), 63–83.

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 T Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Safer Chemicals Would Benefit Both Consumers And Workers. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/safer-chemicals-would-benefit-both-consumers-and-workers/ (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). Technology Transfer: Barriers Limit Royalty Sharing’s Effectiveness. 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

Charles, J.-G. (2017). African American Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Learning in Mathematics: A Case Study of Parent-Teacher Collaboration. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Vecsey, G. (2010). Eight Teams That Will Try Their Best. How Novel. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2004; Gurnett and Kurth, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Gurnett and Kurth, 2005)
Three or more authors: (van de Loosdrecht et al., 2018)

About the journal

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