How to format your references using the Clinical and Molecular Allergy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical and Molecular 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

1. Wadman M. Republican candidates clash on fetal tissue in research. Nature. 2000;403:694.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Belkaid Y, Grainger J. Immunology. Mucus coat, a dress code for tolerance. Science. 2013;342:432–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rigol M, Dunjko V, Olshanii M. Thermalization and its mechanism for generic isolated quantum systems. Nature. 2008;452:854–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kim SK, Shindo A, Park TJ, Oh EC, Ghosh S, Gray RS, et al. Planar cell polarity acts through septins to control collective cell movement and ciliogenesis. Science. 2010;329:1337–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Albalate A, Minker W. Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Rudolph KL, editor. Telomeres and Telomerase in Ageing, Disease, and Cancer: Molecular Mechanisms of Adult Stem Cell Ageing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gavalec M, Ramík J, Zimmermann K. Optimization Problems Under Max-Min Separable Equation and Inequality Constraints. In: Ramík J, Zimmermann K, editors. Decision Making and Optimization: Special Matrices and Their Applications in Economics and Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 119–61.

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 Clinical and Molecular Allergy.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Giant Pterosaurs May Have Been Munching On Human-Sized Dinosaurs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-pterosaurs-may-have-been-munching-on-dwarf-dinosaurs/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Air Safety: FAA’s Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Feb. Report No.: RCED-88-66BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Parker EC. Perceptions of youth with diabetes and their parents/guardians about youth eating habits and nutrition-related difficulties [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Saslow L. Nassau and Union in Deal to Avoid Layoffs. New York Times. 2009 Mar 15;LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Clinical and Molecular Allergy
Abbreviation	Clin. Mol. Allergy
ISSN (online)	1476-7961
Scope	Molecular Biology Immunology Immunology and Allergy