How to format your references using the Allergology International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Allergology International (ALIT). 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

Eisenberg L. Seymour S. Kety (1915-2000). Nature 2000;406(6795):472.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sigloch K., Mihalynuk MG. Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America. Nature 2013;496(7443):50–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beekman M., Calis JN., Boot WJ. Parasitic honeybees get royal treatment. Nature 2000;404(6779):723.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu Z., Dong Y., Wang H., Culley DJ., Marcantonio ER., Crosby G., et al. Age-dependent postoperative cognitive impairment and Alzheimer-related neuropathology in mice. Sci Rep 2014;4:3766.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welker RW., Nagarajan R., Newberg CE. Contamination and ESD Control in High-Technology Manufacturing, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Malley-Morrison K., McCarthy S., Hines D. International Handbook of War, Torture, and Terrorism, New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Kämäräinen J-K., Hadid A., Pietikäinen M. Local Representation of Facial Features. In: Li SZ, Jain AK, editors. Handbook of Face Recognition, London: Springer; 2011, p. 79–108.

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 Allergology International.

Blog post

Andrew E. An extra second on the clock: why moving from astronomic to atomic time is a tricky business. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/extra-second-clock-why-moving-astronomic-atomic-time-tricky-business/ [accessed October 30, 2018].

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. Space Shuttle Facility Program: More Definitive Cost Information Needed, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wicks CF. The Self-Concept of Students in Remediation in a Rural Community College in Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 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

Smith M., Fortin J. Kansas Governor to Be Nominated as Ambassador. New York Times 2017:A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Allergology International
Abbreviation	Allergol. Int.
ISSN (print)	1323-8930
ISSN (online)	1440-1592
Scope	General Medicine Immunology and Allergy