How to format your references using the AIMS Allergy and Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Allergy and Immunology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Cyranoski D (2015) The changing face of industry. Nature 528: S184-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zahn LM, Travis J (2015) Mutation and Human Disease. Hunting Mutations, Targeting Disease. Introduction. Science 349: 1470–1471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu DYW, Hoster HE, Batabyal SK (2014) Bulk antimony sulfide with excellent cycle stability as next-generation anode for lithium-ion batteries. Sci Rep 4: 4562.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Petersen TH, Calle EA, Zhao L, et al. (2010) Tissue-engineered lungs for in vivo implantation. Science 329: 538–541.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberty RA (2005) Thermodynamics of Biochemical Reactions, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jiang X (2013) Android Malware, New York, NY, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Acar S (2016) Inequality Impacts of Oil Dependence in the MENA, In: Stiglitz JE, Guzman M (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Microeconomics, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 77–87.

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 AIMS Allergy and Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) IFLScience, Our New Anti-Earthquake Technology Could Protect Cities From Destruction, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/our-new-anti-earthquake-technology-could-protect-cities-destruction/.

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

Government Accountability Office (1995) [Comments on FAA Employee’s Claim for Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses], Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sutton SR (2009) Freshman transition programs: Effect on ninth grade student preparedness.

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

Branch J (2017) Even in a Dog Doping Scandal, a Cry of Sabotage. New York Times B11.

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	AIMS Allergy and Immunology
ISSN (online)	2575-615X
Scope