How to format your references using the Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, 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	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

Wilkinson DM. Let’s get the right man in the right job. Nature. 2000 Aug 31;406(6799):933.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nusbaum MP, Beenhakker MP. A small-systems approach to motor pattern generation. Nature. 2002 May 16;417(6886):343–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meng F, Li X, Duan Y. Chip-based ingroove microplasma with orthogonal signal collection: new approach for carbon-containing species detection through open air reaction for performance enhancement. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr 25;4:4803.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fontana M, Deppe T, Boyd AK, Rinzan M, Liu AY, Paranjape M, et al. Electron-hole transport and photovoltaic effect in gated MoS2 Schottky junctions. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1634.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adams DJ, Dyson PJ, Tavener SJ. Chemistry in Alternative Reaction Media. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Rajeshwar K, McConnell R, Licht S, editors. Solar Hydrogen Generation: Toward a Renewable Energy Future. New York, NY: Springer; 2008. XX, 312 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Rizzo JM, Zeitouni NC. Advances in Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Malignant and Premalignant Lesions in Transplant Dermatology. In: Zwald F, Brown MD, editors. Advances in Transplant Dermatology: Clinical and Practical Implications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 59–70.

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 Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.

Blog post

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Study Claims People Who Like Their Coffee Black Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Tendencies. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/people-who-their-coffee-black-are-more-likely-be-psychopaths/

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. Voice of America. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD-92-300R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Piekielek JA. Public wildlands at the U.S.-Mexico border: Where conservation, migration, and border enforcement collide [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

Paulson M. Jonathan Groff to Sing Bobby Darin Songs. New York Times. 2017 Jun 28;C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
Abbreviation	Iran. J. Allergy Asthma Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1735-1502
ISSN (online)	1735-5249
Scope	Immunology and Allergy