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

Meystre P. Physics. Cool vibrations. Science 2011;333(6044):832–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stone R., Jasny B. Communication in science pressures and predators. Scientific discourse: buckling at the seams. Introduction. Science 2013;342(6154):56–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gray RD., Drummond AJ., Greenhill SJ. Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement. Science 2009;323(5913):479–83.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sun X., Song P., Zhang Y., Liu C., Xu W., Xing W. A class of high performance metal-free oxygen reduction electrocatalysts based on cheap carbon blacks. Sci Rep 2013;3:2505.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meinert CL. Clinical Trials Handbook, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Suzuki S. Biomaterials for Surgical Operation, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Dargahi F., Rahmani AM., Jabbehdari S. Data Gathering Based on Nodes’ Credit in Wireless Sensor Network. In: Kim T-H, Yang LT, Park JH, Chang AC-C, Vasilakos T, Yeo S-S, editors. Advances in Communication and Networking: Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008, Sanya, Hainan Island, China, December 13-15, 2008. Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 55–62.

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

Andrew D. Astronomers Think A Rare And Explosive “Red Nova” Will Light Up The Night Sky In A Few Years. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-think-a-rare-and-explosive-red-nova-will-light-up-the-night-sky-in-a-few-years/ [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. Public Transportation: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Communication and Transparency of Changes Made to the New Starts Program, 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

Moody VJ. Examining leadership styles and employee engagement in the public and private sectors. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2012.

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

Traub J. Types of Catastrophe. New York Times 2016:BR12.

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