How to format your references using the AIMS Allergy and Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Allergy and Immunology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Eiler JM (2007) Geochemistry. The oldest fossil or just another rock? Science 317: 1046–1047.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim E, Chan MHW (2004) Probable observation of a supersolid helium phase. Nature 427: 225–227.

A journal article with 3 authors

Efremov RG, Baradaran R, Sazanov LA (2010) The architecture of respiratory complex I. Nature 465: 441–445.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen X, Dam MA, Ono K, et al. (2002) A thermally re-mendable cross-linked polymeric material. Science 295: 1698–1702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bâzu M, Băjenescu T (2011) Failure Analysis, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chaudhary M (2015) Practical jQuery, Berkeley, CA, Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Lézoray O (2015) Patch-Based Mathematical Morphology for Image Processing, Segmentation and Classification, In: Battiato S, Blanc-Talon J, Gallo G, et al. (Eds.), Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 16th International Conference, ACIVS 2015, Catania, Italy, October 26-29, 2015. Proceedings, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 46–57.

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 AIMS Allergy and Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) IFLScience, Living Longer, Sicker Lives? Make Lifestyle Changes To Remain Healthier In Old Age, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/living-longer-sicker-lives-make-lifestyle-changes-remain-healthier-old-age/.

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 (1989) Information Technology: Health Care Financing Administration’s Budget Process Needs Improvement, 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

Liang M (2012) Information, communication and wayfinding: Technology shows us the world.

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

Powell M, Walsh MW (2010) A.I.G. to Pay $725 Million In Ohio Case. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	AIMS Allergy and Immunology
ISSN (online)	2575-615X
Scope