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. Li W. Small but effective moves towards a greener China. Nature. 2009;460:683–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Le Borgne M, Shaw AS. Immunology. Do T cells have a cilium? Science. 2013;342:1177–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gurley KA, Rink JC, Sánchez Alvarado A. Beta-catenin defines head versus tail identity during planarian regeneration and homeostasis. Science. 2008;319:323–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Carilli CL, Lewis GF, Djorgovski SG, Mahabal A, Cox P, Bertoldi F, et al. A molecular Einstein ring: imaging a starburst disk surrounding a quasi-stellar object. Science. 2003;300:773–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Provost JJ, Colabroy KL, Kelly BS, Wallert MA. The Science of Cooking. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Norton CJ, Braun DR, editors. Asian Paleoanthropology: From Africa to China and Beyond. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Smith LJ. The legal personality of the European Union and its effects on the development of space activities in Europe. In: Schrogl K-U, Pagkratis S, Baranes B, editors. Yearbook on Space Policy 2009/2010: Space for Society. Vienna: Springer; 2011. p. 199–216.

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. Andrew E. Are Natural Disasters On The Rise? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/are-natural-disasters-rise/

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. Army Logistics: Better Approach Needed to Identify Systemic Causes of Problem Parts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Mar. Report No.: NSIAD-93-86.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Beasley CA. Investigations of redox-labeled silica and gold nanoparticles in solution and as films on electrodes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 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. Rao T. Comfort Food. New York Times. 2017 Jun 29;BR13.

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