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

Dobson CM. Getting out of shape. Nature 2002: 418:729–730.

A journal article with 2 authors

Draine BT, Ostriker JP. Obituary: Bohdan Paczyński (1940-2007). Nature 2007: 447:1065.

A journal article with 3 authors

Singhal N, Kumar M, Virdi JS. Molecular analysis of β-lactamase genes to understand their differential expression in strains of Yersinia enterocolitica biotype 1A. Sci Rep 2014: 4:5270.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Moberg KH, Bell DW, Wahrer DC et al. Archipelago regulates Cyclin E levels in Drosophila and is mutated in human cancer cell lines. Nature 2001: 413:311–316.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boyd RK, Basic C, Bethem RA. Trace Quantitative Analysis by Mass Spectrometry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2008

An edited book

Ourselin S, Rueckert D, Smith N, eds. Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart: 7th International Conference, FIMH 2013, London, UK, June 20-22, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2013

A chapter in an edited book

Jenkins DH. The Effects of Bullets. In: Brooks AJ, Clasper J, Midwinter M, et al., eds. Ryan’s Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide. London: Springer 2011: 37–40.

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

Davis J. E-Cigarettes ‘Around 95% Less Harmful’ Than Regular Smoking. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/e-cigarettes-around-95-less-harmful-regular-smoking-according-independent-report/ (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. Student Loans: Federal Web-based Tool on Private Loans Would Pose Implementation Challenges and May Be Unnecessary. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2010

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Richardson MM. Challenging the South’s black-white binary: Haliwa-Saponi Indians and political autonomy. 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

Dynarski S. A Little Breathing Room in the Financial Aid Gantlet. New York Times. 2016: :BU3.

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