How to format your references using the Current Treatment Options in Allergy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Treatment Options in 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. Marx V. Next-generation sequencing: The genome jigsaw. Nature. 2013;501:263–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vitetta ES, Ghetie VF. Immunology. Considering therapeutic antibodies. Science. 2006;313:308–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ince DC, Hatton L, Graham-Cumming J. The case for open computer programs. Nature. 2012;482:485–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Greer JM, Puetz J, Thomas KR, Capecchi MR. Maintenance of functional equivalence during paralogous Hox gene evolution. Nature. 2000;403:661–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ekenna O. Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice: Obtaining a good history from the patient remains the cornerstone of an accurate clinical diagnosis: Lessons learned in many years of clinical practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Devonshire-Ellis C, Jones SL, Ku E, editors. The Yangtze River Delta: Business Guide to the Shanghai Region. 5th ed. 2012. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wassenaar TM, Newell DG. The Genus Campylobacter. In: Dworkin M, Falkow S, Rosenberg E, Schleifer K-H, Stackebrandt E, editors. The Prokaryotes: Volume 7: Proteobacteria: Delta, Epsilon Subclass. New York, NY: Springer; 2006. p. 119–38.

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 Treatment Options in Allergy.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Sherpas’ Bodies Are Simply More Efficient At Producing Energy At Altitude [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sherpas-bodies-are-simply-more-efficient-at-producing-energy-at-altitude/

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. Federal Communications Commission’s Effort To Implement the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975 Feb. Report No.: 089644.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chalmers TD. The social context of advertising: Authenticity, social identity, and reflected appraisals [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2009.

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. Sifton S. Give ’Em the Bird. New York Times. 2013 Jul 3;MM30.

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 Treatment Options in Allergy
Abbreviation	Curr. Treat. Options Allergy
ISSN (online)	2196-3053
Scope

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