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

Russell MJ. Geochemistry. The importance of being alkaline. Science 2003;302:580–581.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eeva T, Lehikoinen E. Recovery of breeding success in wild birds. Nature 2000;403:851–852.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bobrov K, Mayne AJ, Dujardin G. Atomic-scale imaging of insulating diamond through resonant electron injection. Nature 2001;413:616–619.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wu Z, Sun X, Sullivan SG, Detels R. Public health. HIV testing in China. Science 2006;312:1475–1476.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dinet J. Information Retrieval in Digital Environments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2014

An edited book

Sassone Corsi P, Christen Y, editors. Epigenetics, Brain and Behavior. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2012

A chapter in an edited book

Burkhardt CE, Leventhal JJ. Stationary States in One Dimension II. In: Leventhal JJ, editor. Foundations of Quantum Physics. New York, NY: Springer 2008: 1–56.

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. Crowdfunding Could Be A Simple Way To Pay For Science Research. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/crowdfunding-could-be-simple-way-pay-science-research/ (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. Weather Forecasting: Recommendations to Address New Weather Processing System Development Risks. 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

Holbert M. Knowledge is power (KIP): Kinship caregiver support group program curriculum. 2010.

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

Stewart JB. In Chamber of Secrets: An Author’s Net Worth. New York Times. 2016;:A1.

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