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

Rees M. Time for global statistics we can count on. Nature 2013;502:273.

A journal article with 2 authors

McAdams HH, Shapiro L. A bacterial cell-cycle regulatory network operating in time and space. Science 2003;301:1874–1877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jasny BR, Kelner KL, Pennisi E. Genetics of behavior. From genes to social behavior. Introduction. Science 2008;322:891.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ruepp A, Graml W, Santos-Martinez ML, Koretke KK, Volker C, Mewes HW et al. The genome sequence of the thermoacidophilic scavenger Thermoplasma acidophilum. Nature 2000;407:508–513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grous A. Applied Metrology for Manufacturing Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2011

An edited book

Ebert A, Humayoun SR, Seyff N, Perini A, Barbosa SDJ, editors. Usability- and Accessibility-Focused Requirements Engineering: First International Workshop, UsARE 2012, Held in Conjunction with ICSE 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, June 4, 2012 and Second International Workshop, UsARE 2014, Held in Conjunction with RE 2014, Karlskrona, Sweden, August 25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2016

A chapter in an edited book

Dalla Pria P. I materiali. In: Pace N, editor. La protesi di ginocchio di primo impianto. Milano: Springer 2005: 45–61.

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. LHC Finds Particles That Defy The Standard Model Of Physics. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/physics/lhc-finds-particles-defying-standard-model-physics/ (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. General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

Holby N. School Counselors and Their Experiences Implementing Comprehensive Programs. 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

Brantley B. Finally Taking Shakespeare’s ‘Measure’. New York Times. 2017;:C5.

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