How to format your references using the WAO Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for WAO Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Gu L. Comment on “Climate and management contributions to recent trends in U.S. agricultural yields.” Science. 2003;300(5625):1505; author reply 1505.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jaramillo F, Destouni G. SUSTAINABILITY. Comment on “Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet.” Science. 2015;348(6240):1217.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ward CV, Kimbel WH, Johanson DC. Complete fourth metatarsal and arches in the foot of Australopithecus afarensis. Science. 2011;331(6018):750-753.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dundas CM, Bramson AM, Ojha L, et al. Exposed subsurface ice sheets in the Martian mid-latitudes. Science. 2018;359(6372):199-201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C. Random Vibration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Jones S. On Mutant Pedagogies: Seeking Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education. (Woglom JF, ed.). SensePublishers; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar U, Roland A, Burbidge SA. Understanding and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Rattan SIS, Kassem M, eds. Prevention and Treatment of Age-Related Diseases. Springer Netherlands; 2006:49-70.

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 WAO Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why It Hurts To See Others Suffer: Pain And Empathy Linked In The Brain. IFLScience.

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. [Query Concerning Legality of Transfer of Japan-United States Friendship Commission Funds]. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Butler ML. Floating Homelands: Postnational Constructions of Home in Contemporary Africana Women’s Literature. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 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

Baker P. Reluctantly, Trump Recertifies Iran’s Compliance With Nuclear Agreement. New York Times. July 18, 2017:A7.

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	WAO Journal
Abbreviation	World Allergy Organ. J.
ISSN (print)	1939-4551
Scope	Immunology and Allergy