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

Flight MH. Drug discovery: Structure-led design. Nature. 2013 Oct;502(7471):S50-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Minton DA, Malhotra R. A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt. Nature. 2009 Feb;457(7233):1109–11.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dankert A, Dulal RS, Dash SP. Efficient spin injection into silicon and the role of the Schottky barrier. Sci Rep. 2013 Nov;3:3196.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Maksymovych P, Jesse S, Yu P, Ramesh R, Baddorf AP, Kalinin SV. Polarization control of electron tunneling into ferroelectric surfaces. Science. 2009 Jun;324(5933):1421–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Torres-Moreno J-M. Automatic Text Summarization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Hadzic F. Mining of Data with Complex Structures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Dowson N, Thomas P, Smith J, Salvado O, Rose S. Large Scale Simplex Optimisation to Accelerate Kinetic Analysis. In: Gao F, Shi K, Li S, editors. Computational Methods for Molecular Imaging. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 35–42.

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

Hale T. Bald Eagles Caught Eating A Cat In Their Nest On Live Webcam [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bald-eagles-bringing-kitten-their-nest-caught-live-webcam/

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. Commercial Aviation: Raising Passenger Facility Charges Would Increase Airport Funding, but Other Effects Less Certain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gaudet CJ. A General Approach to the Direct Detection of Dark Matter. 2013

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

Macfarlane I. “AN” AND “H.”; II. New York Times. 1905 Aug;SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR535.

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