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

Bell LE. Cooling, heating, generating power, and recovering waste heat with thermoelectric systems. Science. 2008;321(5895):1457-1461.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baker RP, Urban S. Cytosolic extensions directly regulate a rhomboid protease by modulating substrate gating. Nature. 2015;523(7558):101-105.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kavanagh KD, Evans AR, Jernvall J. Predicting evolutionary patterns of mammalian teeth from development. Nature. 2007;449(7161):427-432.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Matsumoto A, Yamafuji M, Tachibana T, Nakabeppu Y, Noda M, Nakaya H. Oral “hydrogen water” induces neuroprotective ghrelin secretion in mice. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3273.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lévy P. The Semantic Sphere 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Stanković S. Multimedia Signals and Systems. (Orović I, Sejdić E, eds.). Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Da̧browski BP, Rudawy P, Karlický M. Millisecond Radio Spikes in the Decimetric Band. In: Marqué C, Nindos A, eds. Energy Storage and Release through the Solar Activity Cycle: Models Meet Radio Observations. Springer; 2012:71-86.

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

Fang J. Turn Your Phone Into A Cosmic Ray Detector. IFLScience. October 14, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/your-phone-already-cosmic-ray-detector/

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. Aviation Security: TSA Should Take Additional Action to Obtain Stakeholder Input When Modifying the Prohibited Items List. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boos AL. The Post-Abortion Experience: A Content Analysis. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Wagner J. Two Familiar Faces Rejoin Mets’ Bullpen. New York Times. February 4, 2017:D5.

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