How to format your references using the Allergy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Allergy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Abbott A. British panel bans use of antidepressant to treat children. Nature 2003;423:792.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maniatis T, Reed R. An extensive network of coupling among gene expression machines. Nature 2002;416:499–506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ohmoto H, Yamaguchi KE, Ono S. Questions regarding Precambrian sulfur isotope fractionation. Science 2001;292:1959.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Floyd JS, Mutter JC, Goodliffe AM, Taylor B. Evidence for fault weakness and fluid flow within an active low-angle normal fault. Nature 2001;411:779–783.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baines P, Ferraro J, Rogers P. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell 2010

An edited book

Kobayashi T, Schmid W, Yang J-H, editors. Representation Theory and Automorphic Forms. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 2008

A chapter in an edited book

Bosco MC, Varesio L. Hypoxia and Gene Expression. In: Melillo G, editor. Hypoxia and Cancer: Biological Implications and Therapeutic Opportunities. New York, NY: Springer 2014: 91–119.

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 Allergy.

Blog post

Davis J. Orangutan ‘Kiss Squeaks’ Could Give Insight Into Evolution Of Human Language. IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/orangutan-kiss-squeaks-could-give-insight-into-evolution-of-human-language/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Is Overcoming Long-Standing Problems, but Faces Challenges to Ensuring Its Investments Are Optimized. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2013

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

E C-C. The syntax of comparative correlatives in Mandarin Chinese. 2014.

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

Haigney S. Stunt Deaths Renew a Debate Over Safety. New York Times. 2017;:C4.

In-text citations

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

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	Allergy
Abbreviation	Allergy
ISSN (print)	0105-4538
ISSN (online)	1398-9995
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy