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

Carmody J. What if...? Nature. 2000 Jul 27;406(6794):349.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weber T, Deutsch C. Oceanic nitrogen reservoir regulated by plankton diversity and ocean circulation. Nature. 2012 Sep 20;489(7416):419–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zimmet P, Alberti KG, Shaw J. Global and societal implications of the diabetes epidemic. Nature. 2001 Dec 13;414(6865):782–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Reeves EP, Lu H, Jacobs HL, Messina CGM, Bolsover S, Gabella G, et al. Killing activity of neutrophils is mediated through activation of proteases by K+ flux. Nature. 2002 Mar 21;416(6878):291–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thatcher A. God, Sex, and Gender. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Patterson ED, Morrison JH, editors. The Reagan Manifesto: “A Time for Choosing” and its Influence. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XXI, 151 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Piccardi C, Casagrandi R. Remarks on Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks. In: Chiuso A, Fortuna L, Frasca M, Rizzo A, Schenato L, Zampieri S, editors. Modelling, Estimation and Control of Networked Complex Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 77–89. (Kelso JAS, Érdi P, Friston KJ, Haken H, Kacprzyk J, Kurths J, et al., editors. Understanding Complex Systems).

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

Andrew D. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. This Wooden Carving Is Twice As Old As The Pyramids. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-oldest-wooden-carving-older-previously-thought/

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. Cloud-Seeding Activities Carried Out in the United States Under Programs Supported by the Federal Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 May. Report No.: B-100063.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boggs BD. An assessment of campus police departments across Mississippi’s public community and junior colleges [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2012.

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

Barron J. Man Arrested in Strangling of a Jogger in Queens. New York Times. 2017 Feb 5;A16.

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