How to format your references using the International Archives of Allergy and Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Archives of Allergy and Immunology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Fisman R. Health care policy. Straining emergency rooms by expanding health insurance. Science. 2014 Jan;343(6168):252–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luan B, Robbins MO. The breakdown of continuum models for mechanical contacts. Nature. 2005 Jun;435(7044):929–32.

A journal article with 3 authors

Klein Y, Efrati E, Sharon E. Shaping of elastic sheets by prescription of non-Euclidean metrics. Science. 2007 Feb;315(5815):1116–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mohamed N-V, Plouffe V, Rémillard-Labrosse G, Planel E, Leclerc N. Starvation and inhibition of lysosomal function increased tau secretion by primary cortical neurons. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul;4:5715.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holzer SM. Statische Beurteilung Historischer Tragwerke. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

Jawahar CV, Shan S, editors. Computer Vision - ACCV 2014 Workshops: Singapore, Singapore, November 1-2, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Zegarra J, Farcy R. GPS and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as a Navigation System for the Visually Impaired. In: Miesenberger K, Karshmer A, Penaz P, Zagler W, editors. Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 13th International Conference, ICCHP 2012, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012; pp 29–32.

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 International Archives of Allergy and Immunology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Discovery Of Oldest Plants Could Rewrite When Complex Life Began On Earth [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Mar [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/discovery-of-oldest-plants-could-rewrite-when-complex-life-began-on-earth/

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

Government Accountability Office. NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yu H. Parasitism of subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae: Termitidae) by entomopathogenic nematodes (Nematoda: Steinernematidae: Heterorhabditidae). 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

St. John Kelly E. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times. 1993 Dec;1317.

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	International Archives of Allergy and Immunology
Abbreviation	Int. Arch. Allergy Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1018-2438
ISSN (online)	1423-0097
Scope	Immunology General Medicine Immunology and Allergy