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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical and Translational 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Temple S. The development of neural stem cells. Nature. 2001;414:112–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Stern A, Lindner NH. Topological quantum computation--from basic concepts to first experiments. Science. 2013;339:1179–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Joughin I, Alley RB, Holland DM. Ice-sheet response to oceanic forcing. Science. 2012;338:1172–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ueno Y, Yamada K, Yoshida N, Maruyama S, Isozaki Y. Evidence from fluid inclusions for microbial methanogenesis in the early Archaean era. Nature. 2006;440:516–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Chu L-Y, Wang W. Microfluidics for Advanced Functional Polymeric Materials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

1. Randazzo G, Jackson DWT, Cooper JAG, editors. Sand and Gravel Spits. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Leva MC, Kay AM, Mattei F, Kontogiannis T, De Ambroggi M, Cromie S. A Dynamic Task Representation Method for a Virtual Reality Application. In: Harris D, editor. Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: 8th International Conference, EPCE 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 32–42.

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 Translational Allergy.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Watch This Great Video on Why We Haven’t Made Contact with Aliens... Yet [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-kurz-gesagt-video-why-we-havent-made-contact-aliensyet/

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. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Slower Than Expected Progress in Software Testing May Limit Initial Warfighting Capabilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Mar. Report No.: GAO-14-468T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Murdock JM. Lethe and the Twin Bodhisattvas of Forgiveness and Forgetfulness [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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. Rothenberg B. Sharapova Given Wild Card Into U.S. Open, Her First Major Since 2016. New York Times. 2017 Aug 15;B9.

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 Translational Allergy
Abbreviation	Clin. Transl. Allergy
ISSN (online)	2045-7022
Scope