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

Macilwain C. Europe needs a research leader who will lead. Nature 2014;512:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frohlich MW, Chase MW. After a dozen years of progress the origin of angiosperms is still a great mystery. Nature 2007;450:1184–1189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vinther J, Van Roy P, Briggs DEG. Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids. Nature 2008;451:185–188.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

King-Casas B, Tomlin D, Anen C, Camerer CF, Quartz SR, Montague PR. Getting to know you: reputation and trust in a two-person economic exchange. Science 2005;308:78–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geisser S. Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference: Geisser/Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005

An edited book

Faulin J, Juan AA, Martorell S, Ramírez-Márquez J-E, editors. Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems. London: Springer 2010

A chapter in an edited book

Wu JX, Ro K, Yeh MW. Jan Wolff and Israel L. Chaikoff. In: Pasieka JL, Lee JA, editors. Surgical Endocrinopathies: Clinical Management and the Founding Figures. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2015: 21–24.

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

Andrew E. ‘Feathering’ Descent System Deployed Early in Fatal Virgin Galactic Crash. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/space/feathering-descent-system-deployed-early-fatal-virgin-galactic-crash/ (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. Access to Space: Issues Associated With DOD’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle 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

Dashevsky-Kerdman I. The meeting of one hundred ways. 2009.

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

Dargis M. Flying Gore Can Ruin One’s Bespoke Suits. New York Times. 2015;:C17.

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