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. Smith C. Cancer shows strength through diversity. Nature. 2013;499:505–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bergstrom CT, Kerr B. Microbiology: Taking the bad with the good. Nature. 2015;521:431–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Palikaras K, Lionaki E, Tavernarakis N. Coordination of mitophagy and mitochondrial biogenesis during ageing in C. elegans. Nature. 2015;521:525–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sanyal S, Sandstrom DJ, Hoeffer CA, Ramaswami M. AP-1 functions upstream of CREB to control synaptic plasticity in Drosophila. Nature. 2002;416:870–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Obayya S. Computational Photonics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

1. Fook CY, Sidhu GK, Narasuman S, Fong LL, Abdul Rahman SB, editors. 7th International Conference on University Learning and Teaching (InCULT 2014) Proceedings: Educate to Innovate. 1st ed. 2016. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Brown E. The Life and Tools of a Games Designer. In: Bernhaupt R, editor. Evaluating User Experience in Games: Concepts and Methods. London: Springer; 2010. p. 73–87.

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. What Are Fundamental Particles? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-are-fundamental-particles/

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. Implementation of OMB Circular No. A-76 at Science Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Mar. Report No.: GAO-07-434R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Meyer-Barrett JM. Exercising Their Privilege to Borrow: A Demonstrated Understanding of the Obligation of Student Loans in a Community College [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 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

1. Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. 2017 Apr 13;C27.

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

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