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. Clawson GA. Cancer. Fusion for moving. Science. 2013;342:699–700.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rodríguez-Trelles F, Rodríguez MA. Comment on “Global genetic change tracks global climate warming in Drosophila subobscura.” Science. 2007;315:1497; author reply 1497.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Brookmeyer R, Johnson E, Bollinger R. Public health vaccination policies for containing an anthrax outbreak. Nature. 2004;432:901–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hu R, Wei X, Hu J, Luo X. Local heating realization by reverse thermal cloak. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mead JM, Gruneberg S. Programme Procurement in Construction. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

1. Reible D, Lanczos T, editors. Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments Bratislava, Slovak Republic 18–21 May 2005. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lin B, Johnson A, Qian X, Sanchez J, Sun Y. Simultaneous Tracking, 3D Reconstruction and Deforming Point Detection for Stereoscope Guided Surgery. In: Liao H, Linte CA, Masamune K, Peters TM, Zheng G, editors. Augmented Reality Environments for Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Interventions: 6th International Workshop, MIAR 2013 and 8th International Workshop, AE-CAI 2013, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2013, Nagoya, Japan, September 22, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 35–44.

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. Luntz S. Discovery That Kangaroos Fart Too Suggests They Play A Role In Methane Production [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/kangaroos-fart-too0/

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. Highway Infrastructure: Quality Improvements Would Safeguard Billions of Dollars Already Invested. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Sep. Report No.: RCED-94-198.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Moe R. The evolution and impact of the massive open online course [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

1. Koblin J, Peters JW. Diverse Group of Rookie Moderators Is Chosen for the Presidential Debates. New York Times. 2016 Sep 2;A13.

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