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

Ensslin TA. Astronomy. Radio traces of cosmic shock waves. Science. 2006 Nov 3;314(5800):772–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guigó R, Valcárcel J. RNA. Prescribing splicing. Science. 2015 Jan 9;347(6218):124–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bylinskii A, Gangloff D, Vuletić V. Friction. Tuning friction atom-by-atom in an ion-crystal simulator. Science. 2015 Jun 5;348(6239):1115–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gibson QD, Evtushinsky D, Yaresko AN, Zabolotnyy VB, Ali MN, Fuccillo MK, et al. Quasi one dimensional Dirac electrons on the surface of Ru₂Sn₃. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun 4;4:5168.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Geotechnical Society. Recommendations on Excavations EAB. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2013.

An edited book

Zeng Z, Li Y, King I, editors. Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2014: 11th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2014, Hong Kong and Macao, China, November 28- December 1, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. XVI, 649 p. 237 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 8866).

A chapter in an edited book

Ravenhill J. What Drives Regionalism in East Asia—And Why It Matters. In: Antons C, Hilty RM, editors. Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 87–108. (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law).

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

Luntz S. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Five Second Rule More than Wishful Thinking? Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/five-second-rule-more-wishful-thinking/

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. FCC: Unlicensed NII Devices in the 5 GHz Frequency Range. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Sep. Report No.: OGC-98-72.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim G. Development of a nutrition-based curriculum for farm-to-school programs for the fourth and fifth grades [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Moschen I. On Train Line’s Far Reaches, a Conductor Who Offers Full Service. New York Times. 2012 Apr 26;A20.

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