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. Ehrenreich H. Medicine. A boost for translational neuroscience. Science. 2004;305:184–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wäsch R, Cross FR. APC-dependent proteolysis of the mitotic cyclin Clb2 is essential for mitotic exit. Nature. 2002;418:556–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Carslaw KS, Harrison RG, Kirkby J. Cosmic rays, clouds, and climate. Science. 2002;298:1732–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tauriello DVF, Palomo-Ponce S, Stork D, Berenguer-Llergo A, Badia-Ramentol J, Iglesias M, et al. TGFβ drives immune evasion in genetically reconstituted colon cancer metastasis. Nature. 2018;554:538–43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Goria S. Methods and Tools for Creative Competitive Intelligence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Dobrev V, editor. Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics: Varna, Bulgaria, June 2013. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Donald BR. The Compass That Steered Robotics. In: Constable RL, Silva A, editors. Logic and Program Semantics: Essays Dedicated to Dexter Kozen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 50–65.

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. Andrew E. Adorable Baby Pygmy Hippo Born At Melbourne Zoo [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/adorable-baby-pygmy-hippo-born-melbourne-zoo/

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. Information Superhighway: An Overview of Technology Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Jan. Report No.: AIMD-95-23.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pierre RR. A Phenomenological Study of the Boomerang-Employment Experience of Scientists and Engineers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2019.

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. Sisario B. Prince Estate in Deal With Universal. New York Times. 2017 Feb 9;C2.

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