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

Hardin LS. Meetings that changed the world: Bellagio 1969: The green revolution. Nature 2008;455(7212):470–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Navarro A., Barton NH. Chromosomal speciation and molecular divergence--accelerated evolution in rearranged chromosomes. Science 2003;300(5617):321–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bizzarro M., Baker JA., Haack H. Mg isotope evidence for contemporaneous formation of chondrules and refractory inclusions. Nature 2004;431(7006):275–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yeung N., Lin Y-W., Gao Y-G., Zhao X., Russell BS., Lei L., et al. Rational design of a structural and functional nitric oxide reductase. Nature 2009;462(7276):1079–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gadd K. TRIZ für Ingenieure, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

Dössel O., Schlegel WC. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/11 Biomedical Engineering for Audiology, Ophthalmology, Emergency & Dental Medicine, vol. 25/11, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Meiwes KJ., Meesenburg H., Eichhorn J., Jacobsen C., Khanna PK. Changes in C and N Contents of Soils Under Beech Forests over a Period of 35 Years. In: Brumme R, Khanna PK, editors. Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 49–63.

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

Andrews R. Why Isn’t There A Real Life King Kong? IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-isnt-there-a-real-life-king-kong/ [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. Federal Research: The Small Business Technology Transfer Program, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rendleman AJ. Energetics of Physiological Plasticity during Larval Development of the Sand Dollar, Dendraster Excentricus. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

Vecsey G. Back in Queens, Johnson Is Full of Memories and Statistics. New York Times 2013:B12.

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