How to format your references using the Alergologia Polska- Polish Journal of Allergology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Alergologia Polska- Polish Journal of Allergology. 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

[1]

Barbier E. How is the Global Green New Deal going? Nature 2010;464:832–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Hench LL, Polak JM. Third-generation biomedical materials. Science 2002;295:1014–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Alford RA, Dixon PM, Pechmann JH. Ecology. Global amphibian population declines. Nature 2001;412:499–500.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Akama TO, Nakagawa H, Sugihara K, Narisawa S, Ohyama C, Nishimura S-I, et al. Germ cell survival through carbohydrate-mediated interaction with Sertoli cells. Science 2002;295:124–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Botsai E, Kaneshiro C, Cuccia P, Pajo H. The Architect’s Guide to Preventing Water Infiltration. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

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Choudhury B. Refined Ray Tracing inside Single- and Double-Curvatured Concave Surfaces. 1st ed. 2016. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Gladyshev P, Almansoori A. Reliable Acquisition of RAM Dumps from Intel-Based Apple Mac Computers over FireWire. In: Baggili I, editor. Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime: Second International ICST Conference, ICDF2C 2010, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 4-6, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 55–64.

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 Alergologia Polska- Polish Journal of Allergology.

Blog post

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Andrew E. How Spiders Spin Electrically Charged Threads. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-spiders-spin-electrically-charged-threads/ (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

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Government Accountability Office. Youth Job Training: Problems Measuring Attainment of Employment Competencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

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Evans KM. Evolution of Craniofacial Diversity in Neotropical Electric Fishes (Gymnotiformes: Teleostei). Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2017.

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

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McKINLEY JC Jr, Ferré-Sadurní L. Trial for Brazen Murder Brings Mother No Solace. New York Times 2017:A22.

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	Alergologia Polska- Polish Journal of Allergology
ISSN (print)	2353-3854
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