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. Smaglik P. Biotech’s balancing act. Nature. 2003;423:363.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sharon I, Banfield JF. Microbiology. Genomes from metagenomics. Science. 2013;342:1057–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Knigge C, Coe MJ, Podsiadlowski P. Two populations of X-ray pulsars produced by two types of supernova. Nature. 2011;479:372–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lenoir J, Gégout JC, Marquet PA, de Ruffray P, Brisse H. A significant upward shift in plant species optimum elevation during the 20th century. Science. 2008;320:1768–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Malina M. Delivering Sustainable Buildings. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Dorizzi B, Chollet G, Petrovska-Delacrétaz D, editors. Guide to Biometric Reference Systems and Performance Evaluation. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nakamura T. How to Recover Minor Rare Metals from E-Scrap. In: Neelameggham NR, Alam S, Oosterhof H, Jha A, Dreisinger D, Wang S, editors. Rare Metal Technology 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 37–44.

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. Andrew E. Scientists Build A Supercomputer From PlayStations To Study Black Holes. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Important Progress Made, Yet Much Work Remains to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Aug. Report No.: T-AIMD-99-266.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Matheny AL. Home gardener preferences, perceptions, knowledge and behaviors associated with pest management strategies and information acquisition [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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. Shpigel B. Top Safety From L.S.U. With Reputation for Intensity Drops Into Jets’ Lap at No. 6. New York Times. 2017 Apr 27;B10.

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

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