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

Hyun I. Fair payment or undue inducement? Nature. 2006;442:629–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pruszynski JA, Diedrichsen J. Neuroscience. Reading the mind to move the body. Science. 2015;348:860–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bleichert F, Botchan MR, Berger JM. Crystal structure of the eukaryotic origin recognition complex. Nature. 2015;519:321–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Panigrahi P, Parida S, Nanda NC, Satpathy R, Pradhan L, Chandel DS, et al. Corrigendum: A randomized synbiotic trial to prevent sepsis among infants in rural India. Nature. 2018;553:238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stahl S. Real Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Gustafsson A, Herrmann A, Huber F, editors. Conjoint Measurement: Methods and Applications. Fourth Edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. VIII, 373 p. 39 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Lahiry A, Datta A, Tripathy S. Active and Entire Candidate Sector Channel Utilization Based Close Loop Antenna Array Amplitude Control Technique for UMTS and CDMA Networks to Counter Non Uniform Cell Breathing. In: Berretti S, Thampi SM, Dasgupta S, editors. Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications: Volume 2. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 33–44. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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. Mountains Drive Evolution [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mountain-building-drives-evolutionary-pulses/

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. General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Sep. Report No.: AA-96-28(4).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Albers C. One Academic Year Study of Experiences of One Cohort of Graduates from a Midwestern University’s Teacher Education Program [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2015.

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

Hui M. In Organic-Hungry Hong Kong, Corn as High as an Elevator’s Climb. New York Times. 2012;A6.

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