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. Tso TC. Agriculture of the future. Nature. 2004;428:215–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schneggenburger R, Neher E. Intracellular calcium dependence of transmitter release rates at a fast central synapse. Nature. 2000;406:889–93.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Marasco A, Limongiello A, Migliore M. Using Strahler’s analysis to reduce up to 200-fold the run time of realistic neuron models. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2934.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nakatsu T, Ichiyama S, Hiratake J, Saldanha A, Kobashi N, Sakata K, et al. Structural basis for the spectral difference in luciferase bioluminescence. Nature. 2006;440:372–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Laplante PA, Ovaska SJ. Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Motizuki K. Electronic Structure and Magnetism of 3d-Transition Metal Pnictides. Ido H, Itoh T, Morifuji M, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Siddiqui JH, Khurshid S. An Empirical Study of Structural Constraint Solving Techniques. In: Breitman K, Cavalcanti A, editors. Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 11th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods ICFEM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 9-12, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 88–106.

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. Carpineti A. Astronomers Have Found Another Star That Has Extreme Dips In Light For Unknown Reasons [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-found-another-star-that-has-extreme-dips-in-light-for-unknown-reasons/

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. Intelligence Programs: New RC-135 Aircraft Engines Can Reduce Cost and Improve Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD-92-305.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nguyen J. Adherence to medications among Vietnamese Americans 65 years of age and older [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Hubbard B. 21 Killed in Series of Car Bomb Blasts in Syria’s Capital. New York Times. 2017 Jul 2;A5.

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