How to format your references using the Pediatric Allergy and Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pediatric 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

Maugeri L. Science and industry. Oil: never cry wolf--why the petroleum age is far from over. Science 2004: 304:1114–1115.

A journal article with 2 authors

Errami M, Garner H. A tale of two citations. Nature 2008: 451:397–399.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo J, Zhu J, Ye H. Comment on ‘Tubular graphite cones’. Science 2004: 303:766; author reply 766.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pellegrini AFA, Ahlström A, Hobbie SE et al. Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity. Nature 2018: 553:194–198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moreau N. Tools for Signal Compression. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2013

An edited book

Blackmon SH, Kim MP, Dickinson KJ, eds. Atlas of Esophageal Disease and Intervention: A Multidisciplinary Approach. New York, NY: Springer 2015

A chapter in an edited book

Padhan SK, Behera PK, Mohapatra RN. Second-order Symmetric Duality and Variational Problems. In: Mohapatra RN, Chowdhury DR, Giri D, eds. Mathematics and Computing: ICMC, Haldia, India, January 2015. New Delhi: Springer India 2015: 49–57.

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 Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew D. Healthcare’s Dirty Little Secret: Results From Many Clinical Trials Are Unreliable. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/healthcares-dirty-little-secret-results-from-many-clinical-trials-are-unreliable/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Metropolitan Area Acquisition (MAA) Implementation Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2001

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mayner SW. Transformational leadership and organizational change during agile and devops initiatives. 2017.

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

Vecsey G. Balancing Football and Academic Success. New York Times. 2009: :B16.

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	Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Allergy Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0905-6157
ISSN (online)	1399-3038
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health