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

Gresham D. Evolution: Fitness tracking for adapting populations. Nature. 2015 Mar;519(7542):164–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fishman L, Saunders A. Centromere-associated female meiotic drive entails male fitness costs in monkeyflowers. Science. 2008 Dec;322(5907):1559–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boisvert CA, Mark-Kurik E, Ahlberg PE. The pectoral fin of Panderichthys and the origin of digits. Nature. 2008 Dec;456(7222):636–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Minamino T, Morimoto YV, Kinoshita M, Aldridge PD, Namba K. The bacterial flagellar protein export apparatus processively transports flagellar proteins even with extremely infrequent ATP hydrolysis. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec;4:7579.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards T. Investing Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Salomone R, Clasadonte MT, Proto M, Raggi A, editors. Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS): Improving Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Agri-Food Chain with Innovative Environmental Management Tools. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrari A, Luna BQ, Spickermann A, Travelletti J, Krzeminska D, Eichenberger J, et al. Techniques for the Modelling of the Process Systems in Slow and Fast-Moving Landslides. In: Van Asch T, Corominas J, Greiving S, Malet J-P, Sterlacchini S, editors. Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014; pp 83–129.

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

Andrew E. Why Is Oil And Gas Activity Causing Earthquakes? And Can We Reduce The Risk? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-oil-and-gas-activity-causing-earthquakes-and-can-we-reduce-risk/

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. Information Technology: OMB and Agencies Need to Improve Planning, Management, and Oversight of Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schiffbauer LW. The pursuit of self-esteem: A help or a hindrance in thriving in the workplace? 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

Wagner J. Baker Is Out as the Nationals Manager. New York Times. 2017 Oct;D4.

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

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