How to format your references using the The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Allergy and Clinical 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

Jones D. DaedalusThe tense road. Nature. 2001;411:758.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clardy J, Walsh C. Lessons from natural molecules. Nature. 2004;432:829–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gauld SB, Dal Porto JM, Cambier JC. B cell antigen receptor signaling: roles in cell development and disease. Science. 2002;296:1641–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Grishchuk EL, Molodtsov MI, Ataullakhanov FI, McIntosh JR. Force production by disassembling microtubules. Nature. 2005;438:384–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bécherrawy T. Mechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2012.

An edited book

Kendal SL. An Introduction to Knowledge Engineering. Creen M, editor. London: Springer; 2007. X, 290 p. 33 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Gu P. EFL Teacher Learning in the Chinese Sociocultural Context. In: Coniam D, editor. English Language Education and Assessment: Recent Developments in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland. Singapore: Springer; 2014. p. 69–85.

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 The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Do We Really Need Oxygen For Complex Life? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Small Business Administration: Mandated Planning for Loan Monitoring System Is Not Complete. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Jun. Report No.: AIMD-98-214R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Joseph WR. Physical Characterization of Vernix Caseosa: Implications for Biological Function [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2002.

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

Cowan AL. Family’s Tenacity and Wealth Put Skakel at Cusp of Freedom. New York Times. 2013;A1.

In-text citations

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

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	The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Abbreviation	J. Allergy Clin. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0091-6749
ISSN (online)	1097-6825
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy