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]

Levi MA. Dreaming of clean nukes. Nature 2004;428:892.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen D, Ma XL. Local decomposition induced by dislocation motions inside tetragonal Al(2)Cu compound: slip system-dependent dynamics. Sci Rep 2013;3:3157.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Takahashi Y, Sipp D, Enomoto H. Tissue interactions in neural crest cell development and disease. Science 2013;341:860–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Frost DJ, Liebske C, Langenhorst F, McCammon CA, Trønnes RG, Rubie DC. Experimental evidence for the existence of iron-rich metal in the Earth’s lower mantle. Nature 2004;428:409–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Drake PP, Fabozzi FJ. Foundations and Applications of the Time Value of Money. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Byrnes J, editor. Imaging for Detection and Identification. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Clark PE, Rilee ML. Longwave Region: Mid to Thermal Infrared, Microwave, and Radio. In: Rilee ML, editor. Remote Sensing Tools for Exploration: Observing and Interpreting the Electromagnetic Spectrum, New York, NY: Springer; 2010, p. 178–252.

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

[1]

Hamilton K. Could We One Day Heal The Mind By Taking Control Of Our Dreams? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/could-we-one-day-heal-the-mind-by-taking-control-of-our-dreams/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Commercial Aviation: Survey of Small Community Air Service Grantees and Applicants, an E-supplement to GAO-06-21. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mack DL. The Cost of Credit: Protecting Consumers in a Regulated Fringe Credit Market. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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

[1]

Eligon J. From Angry Student to Board Member. New York Times 2017:A10.

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
Scope