How to format your references using the Current Allergy and Asthma Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Allergy and Asthma Reports. 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. Sosnick TR. Comment on “Force-clamp spectroscopy monitors the folding trajectory of a single protein.” Science. 2004;306:411; author reply 411.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. McCollom TM, Hynek BM. A volcanic environment for bedrock diagenesis at Meridiani Planum on Mars. Nature. 2005;438:1129–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gray HM, Gray K, Wegner DM. Dimensions of mind perception. Science. 2007;315:619.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Klaassen M, Lindström A A, Meltofte H, Piersma T. Ornithology. Arctic waders are not capital breeders. Nature. 2001;413:794.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Vaughan D, Robinson N, Lucas N, Arulkumaran S. Handbook of Obstetric High Dependency Care. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Veziroğlu A, Tsitskishvili M, editors. Black Sea Energy Resource Development and Hydrogen Energy Problems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kallmeyer L. On the Mild Context-Sensitivity of k-Tree Wrapping Grammar. In: Foret A, Morrill G, Muskens R, Osswald R, Pogodalla S, editors. Formal Grammar: 20th and 21st International Conferences, FG 2015, Barcelona, Spain, August 2015, Revised Selected Papers FG 2016, Bozen, Italy, August 2016, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 77–93.

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 Current Allergy and Asthma Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Practising Music Improves The Symmetry Of Your Brain [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/practising-music-improves-symmetry-your-brain/

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. Review of Certain Activities of the Kentucky Equine Education Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974 Dec. Report No.: MWD-75-39.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Krau CF. A case study of congregational design and implementation of adult Christian education [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2008.

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. Shpigel B. The Undoing of a Quiet Jet. New York Times. 2015 Aug 15;SP1.

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	Current Allergy and Asthma Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Allergy Asthma Rep.
ISSN (print)	1529-7322
ISSN (online)	1534-6315
Scope	Immunology and Allergy Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine