How to format your references using the World Allergy Organization Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Allergy Organization 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

1. Kelly RL. Retrospective. Lewis R. Binford (1931-2011). Science. 2011;332:928.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rappuoli R, Aderem A. A 2020 vision for vaccines against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. Nature. 2011;473:463–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bietenholz MF, Bartel N, Rupen MP. Discovery of a compact radio component in the center of supernova 1986J. Science. 2004;304:1947–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kang W, Stormer HL, Pfeiffer LN, Baldwin KW, West KW. Tunnelling between the edges of two lateral quantum Hall systems. Nature. 2000;403:59–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Permyakov EA, Kretsinger RH. Calcium Binding Proteins. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Jha NK, Chen D, editors. Nanoelectronic Circuit Design. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pepin B. Student Transition to University Mathematics Education: Transformations of People, Tools and Practices. In: Rezat S, Hattermann M, Peter-Koop A, editors. Transformation - A Fundamental Idea of Mathematics Education. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 65–83.

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 World Allergy Organization Journal.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Sailor’s Thumbnail Reveals Diet Details of Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/sailors-thumbnail-reveals-diet-details-of-franklins-doomed-arctic-expedition/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Enterprise Architecture: Leadership Remains Key to Establishing and Leveraging Architectures for Organizational Transformation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Aug. Report No.: GAO-06-831.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Masuyama G. The Bird Is A Word [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

1. Barron J. The Paintings of an ‘Outsider’ Are (Finally) Revealed. New York Times. 2017 Jan 15;A17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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