How to format your references using the Allergy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Allergy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Marris E. On high alert. Nature 2010;466:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finney J, Acton JM. Nuclear-weapons dismantlement: identifying a hidden warhead. Nature 2014;510:476–477.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fashami MS, Atulasimha J, Bandyopadhyay S. Energy dissipation and error probability in fault-tolerant binary switching. Sci Rep 2013;3:3204.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tzoneva G, Dieck CL, Oshima K, Ambesi-Impiombato A, Sánchez-Martín M, Madubata CJ et al. Clonal evolution mechanisms in NT5C2 mutant-relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Nature 2018;553:511–514.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morocco CC, Aguilar CM, Bershad C, Kotula AW, Hindin A. Supported Literacy for Adolescents. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass 2008

An edited book

Asea AAA, Brown IR, editors. Heat Shock Proteins and the Brain: Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Neuroprotection. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands 2008

A chapter in an edited book

Simpson CG, Brown JWS. U12-Dependent Intron Splicing in Plants. In: Reddy ASN, Golovkin M, editors. Nuclear pre-mRNA Processing in Plants. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2008: 61–82.

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 Allergy.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why Do We Kiss? IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/brain/lips-are-most-exposed-erogenous-zone-which-makes-kissing-feel-very-good/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. FAA Work Force Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1987

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stoecker K. Transfer of Topic-Prominence in Chinese-English Interlanguage. 2013.

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

Kenigsberg B. Review: ‘Danny Says,’ a Paean to a Rock Gadfly and Tastemaker. New York Times. 2016;:C10.

In-text citations

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

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	Allergy
Abbreviation	Allergy
ISSN (print)	0105-4538
ISSN (online)	1398-9995
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy