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. Kroto HW. Working at the coal face. Nature. 2010;467:S13.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. An SJ, Almers W. Tracking SNARE complex formation in live endocrine cells. Science. 2004;306:1042–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Watanabe KN, Taeb M, Okusu H. Biotechnology. Japanese controversies over transgenic crop regulation. Science. 2004;305:1572.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Peccianti M, Conti C, Assanto G, De Luca A, Umeton C. Routing of anisotropic spatial solitons and modulational instability in liquid crystals. Nature. 2004;432:733–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Jevon P. Paediatric Advanced Life Support. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Hui P. Atlas of Intraoperative Frozen Section Diagnosis in Gynecologic Pathology. 1st ed. 2015. Buza N, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Oesterle EC, Stone JS. Hair Cell Regeneration: Mechanisms Guiding Cellular Proliferation and Differentiation. In: Salvi RJ, Popper AN, Fay RR, editors. Hair Cell Regeneration, Repair, and Protection. New York, NY: Springer; 2008. p. 141–97.

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. Hikers Film A Beautiful Spinning Ice Disk On A Frozen River. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. V-22 Osprey Aircraft: Assessments Needed to Address Operational and Cost Concerns to Define Future Investments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Jun. Report No.: GAO-09-692T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Emmerling-Baker D. A Qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Study of K5 Teacher Perceptions of Classroom Empathy Instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 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

1. Hodara S. Before YouTube, Experimenting With Video. New York Times. 2015 Mar 1;WE10.

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