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. Smaglik P. Making it big in Taiwan. Nature. 2007;446:696–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sun JC, Bevan MJ. Defective CD8 T cell memory following acute infection without CD4 T cell help. Science. 2003;300:339–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. London AJ, Kimmelman J, Carlisle B. Research ethics. Rethinking research ethics: the case of postmarketing trials. Science. 2012;336:544–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sullivan NJ, Geisbert TW, Geisbert JB, Xu L, Yang Z-Y, Roederer M, et al. Accelerated vaccination for Ebola virus haemorrhagic fever in non-human primates. Nature. 2003;424:681–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Barnes P, Davies M. Sub-Contracting under the JCT 2005 Forms. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2009.

An edited book

1. Goldwyn AJ, Silverman RM, editors. Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Muñoz GM, Soto DR. Boom and Bust in Colombia 1990–2013. In: Santarcángelo JE, Justo O, Cooney P, editors. Latin America after the Financial Crisis: Economic Ramifications from Heterodox Perspectives. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 87–115.

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. Eating Human Brains Drove Evolution In Remote Tribe [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/tribe-evolved-response-eating-human-brains/

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. Mass Transit Grants: UMTA Needs to Increase Safety Focus at Local Transit Authority. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Dec. Report No.: RCED-90-41.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Allen HT. The Songs of Lori Laitman: An Analysis of Sunflowers and Early Snow [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2013.

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. Mueller B. Bicyclist Is Killed by Car Fleeing Court Police. New York Times. 2015 May 29;A18.

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