How to format your references using the Allergology International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Allergology International (ALIT). 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

Rice C. Perspective: miles to go before we sleep. Nature 2011;474(7350):S8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dunn RA., Martinez F. Contrasting crustal production and rapid mantle transitions beneath back-arc ridges. Nature 2011;469(7329):198–202.

A journal article with 3 authors

Glasauer S., Langley S., Beveridge TJ. Intracellular iron minerals in a dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium. Science 2002;295(5552):117–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hirata H., Yoshiura S., Ohtsuka T., Bessho Y., Harada T., Yoshikawa K., et al. Oscillatory expression of the bHLH factor Hes1 regulated by a negative feedback loop. Science 2002;298(5594):840–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maguire L., Smith E. 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

Xiao T., Zhang L., Fei M. AsiaSim 2012: Asia Simulation Conference 2012, Shanghai, China, October 27-30, 2012. Proceedings, Part II, vol. 324, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Easter KW., Johansson RC. Effectiveness of Market Approaches to Water Quality Management. In: Biswas AK, Braga B, Tortajada C, Rodriguez DJ, editors. Water Quality Management in the Americas, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 61–78.

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 Allergology International.

Blog post

Davis J. Cave-Climbing Catfish Discovered In Ecuador. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cave-climbing-catfish-discovered-ecuador/ [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. School Lunch Program: Role and Impacts of Private Food Service Companies, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Best ML. Assistant Principals and Reform: A Socialization Paradox?. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2013.

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Decline to Take Up New Eminent Domain Case. New York Times 2007:A15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Allergology International
Abbreviation	Allergol. Int.
ISSN (print)	1323-8930
ISSN (online)	1440-1592
Scope	General Medicine Immunology and Allergy