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. Taylor WR. A deeply knotted protein structure and how it might fold. Nature. 2000;406:916–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vaquero LM, Cebrian M. The rich club phenomenon in the classroom. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1174.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Worrell BT, Malik JA, Fokin VV. Direct evidence of a dinuclear copper intermediate in Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloadditions. Science. 2013;340:457–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Heersche HB, Jarillo-Herrero P, Oostinga JB, Vandersypen LMK, Morpurgo AF. Bipolar supercurrent in graphene. Nature. 2007;446:56–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wolf EL, Medikonda M. Understanding the Nanotechnology Revolution. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

1. Fatunde OA. Medical Devices and Biomaterials for the Developing World: Case Studies in Ghana and Nicaragua. Bhatia SK, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Yuan W, Sickel W, Yang D. Pseudo-Differential Operators. In: Sickel W, Yang D, editors. Morrey and Campanato Meet Besov, Lizorkin and Triebel. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 137–46.

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. Andrew E. Iranian Becomes First Woman To Ever Win The “Nobel Prize” Of Mathematics. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Airport Safety Inspection Program Needed To Improve Flight Safety of Civil Aircraft. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 Jan. Report No.: B-164497(1).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sharma V. Functional Characterization of Na+/Ca2+ Exchangers in Caenorhabditis elegans [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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. Crow K. Where 146 Died in a Fire, And a Union Was Born. New York Times. 2002 Nov 17;146.

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

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