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

Liman ER. Cell signaling. Putting the squeeze on phototransduction. Science. 2012;338:200–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wells JA, McClendon CL. Reaching for high-hanging fruit in drug discovery at protein-protein interfaces. Nature. 2007;450:1001–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pesaran B, Nelson MJ, Andersen RA. Free choice activates a decision circuit between frontal and parietal cortex. Nature. 2008;453:406–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ngo TTM, Moufarrej MN, Rasmussen MLH, Camunas-Soler J, Pan W, Okamoto J, et al. Noninvasive blood tests for fetal development predict gestational age and preterm delivery. Science. 2018;360:1133–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jensen RC. Risk-Reduction Methods for Occupational Safety and Health. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Steinmetz R, Wehrle K, editors. Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. XXVIII, 632 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3485).

A chapter in an edited book

Villmann T, Seiffert U, Schleif FM, Brüß C, Geweniger T, Hammer B. Fuzzy Labeled Self-Organizing Map with Label-Adjusted Prototypes. In: Schwenker F, Marinai S, editors. Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition: Second IAPR Workshop, ANNPR 2006, Ulm, Germany, August 31-September 2, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 46–56. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Davis J. 2015 Global Temperatures Set To Pass 1°C Of Warming [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/average-global-temperature-set-pass-1-c-warming-first-time/

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. Human Resources Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Apr. Report No.: AA-96-29(2).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brooks BM. Applying Andragogical Principles to Real-Time Embedded Parental Coaching When Helping Their Children with Hearing Loss to Talk [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 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

Kenigsberg B. Shot Caller. New York Times. 2017;C9.

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