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

Holt T. Subpoenaed in Syracuse. Nature. 2000;407(6806):841.

A journal article with 2 authors

Monsonego A, Weiner HL. Immunotherapeutic approaches to Alzheimer’s disease. Science. 2003;302(5646):834-838.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jensen RB, Carreira A, Kowalczykowski SC. Purified human BRCA2 stimulates RAD51-mediated recombination. Nature. 2010;467(7316):678-683.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Green MA, Zhao J, Wang A, Reece PJ, Gal M. Efficient silicon light-emitting diodes. Nature. 2001;412(6849):805-808.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Geotechnical Society. Recommendations on Excavations EAB. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2013.

An edited book

Le ND. Statistical Analysis of Environmental Space-Time Processes. (Zidek JV, ed.). Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Andrews S. In-Close2, a High Performance Formal Concept Miner. In: Andrews S, Polovina S, Hill R, Akhgar B, eds. Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge: 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2011, Derby, UK, July 25-29, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2011:50-62.

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. Watch Tony Hawk Ride A Real Hoverboard. 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. Business Systems Modernization: IRS Has Made Significant Progress in Improving Its Management Controls, but Risks Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carlson DL. BOUND/(Bang). Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Walsh MW. New Puerto Rico Debt Relief Law Stirs Colonial Resentments. New York Times. July 1, 2016:B1.

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