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

Rapoport TA. Protein translocation across the eukaryotic endoplasmic reticulum and bacterial plasma membranes. Nature 2007;450:663–669.

A journal article with 2 authors

McKerracher L, Ellezam B. Development. Putting the brakes on regeneration. Science 2002;296:1819–1820.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duderstadt KE, Chuang K, Berger JM. DNA stretching by bacterial initiators promotes replication origin opening. Nature 2011;478:209–213.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nieto P, Pijper E, Barredo D, Laurent G, Olsen RA, Baerends E-J et al. Reactive and nonreactive scattering of H2 from a metal surface is electronically adiabatic. Science 2006;312:86–89.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gupta SK. Modern Hydrology and Sustainable Water Development. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2010

An edited book

Marraffa M. The Self and its Defenses: From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2016

A chapter in an edited book

Baxley TP, Boston GH. Always Carrying the Load. In: Boston GH, editor. (In)visible Presence: Feminist Counter-Narratives of Young Adult Literature by Women of Color. Rotterdam: SensePublishers 2014: 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 Allergy.

Blog post

Andrew E. Ancient ‘Monster’ Sea Scorpions Were Gentle Giants. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-monster-sea-scorpions-were-gentle-giants/ (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. Gender Equity: Men’s and Women’s Participation in Higher Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2000

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Paaske LK. AVPV kisspeptin neurons mediate neuroprogesterone induction of the luteinizing hormone surge. 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

Crow K. Looking for a Good Word About the Car Alarm. New York Times. 2003;:147.

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

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