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. Slack JMW. Development. Planarian pluripotency. Science. 2011;332:799–800.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fu Y-X, Storb U. Immunology. Autoreactive B cells migrate into T cell territory. Science. 2002;297:2006–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Muheim R, Phillips JB, Akesson S. Polarized light cues underlie compass calibration in migratory songbirds. Science. 2006;313:837–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Porter JR, Challinor A, Ewert F, Falloon P, Fischer T, Gregory P, et al. Food security: focus on agriculture. Science. 2010;328:172–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Franssen J-M, Vila Real P. Fire Design of Steel Structures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

1. Niwa M. Characterization and Design of Zeolite Catalysts: Solid Acidity, Shape Selectivity and Loading Properties. Katada N, Okumura K, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Verbelen C, Andre G, Haulot X, Gilbert Y, Alsteens D, Dague E, et al. Towards a Nanoscale View of Microbial Surfaces Using the Atomic Force Microscope. In: Tomitori M, Bhushan B, Fuchs H, editors. Applied Scanning Probe Methods IX: Characterization. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 111–26.

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. Hale T. Babies Can Categorize Different Colors, Suggesting It’s Hardwired Into Us [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/babies-can-categorize-different-colors-suggesting-its-hardwired-into-us/

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. Effect of Personnel Reform on the Federal Aviation Administration’s Budget. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 May. Report No.: GAO-09-645R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mannar NK. Hri-Tech Consultants, LLC [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Billard M. Feeling Free of All Ties. New York Times. 2010 Apr 29;E5.

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