How to format your references using the Clinical and Molecular Allergy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical and Molecular 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

1. Müller-Wille S. Plant taxonomy: The love of plants. Nature. 2007;446:268.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nott J, Hayne M. High frequency of “super-cyclones” along the Great Barrier Reef over the past 5,000 years. Nature. 2001;413:508–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Blundy J, Cashman K, Humphreys M. Magma heating by decompression-driven crystallization beneath andesite volcanoes. Nature. 2006;443:76–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wolfer DP, Litvin O, Morf S, Nitsch RM, Lipp H-P, Würbel H. Laboratory animal welfare: cage enrichment and mouse behaviour. Nature. 2004;432:821–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hillis DR, Duvall JB. Improving Profitability through Green Manufacturing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Osaka T, Ogumi Z, editors. Nanoscale Technology for Advanced Lithium Batteries. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bellari A. Advent of Internet 2.0 and Its Implications on the Semiconductor Industry. In: Chakravarthi VS, Shirur YJM, Prasad R, editors. Proceedings of International Conference on VLSI, Communication, Advanced Devices, Signals & Systems and Networking (VCASAN-2013). New Delhi: Springer India; 2013. p. 25–25.

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 Clinical and Molecular Allergy.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Odd States Of Matter: How Three British Theorists Scooped The 2016 Nobel Prize For Physics [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/odd-states-of-matter-how-three-british-theorists-scooped-the-2016-nobel-prize-for-physics/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Highway Safety: Causes of Injury in Automobile Crashes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 May. Report No.: PEMD-95-4.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Younis KM. The impact of moral values on ethical practices in environmental management [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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

1. Cowley S. New York Attorney General Opens Inquiry on Student Debt. New York Times. 2017 Jul 19;B3.

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	Clinical and Molecular Allergy
Abbreviation	Clin. Mol. Allergy
ISSN (online)	1476-7961
Scope	Molecular Biology Immunology Immunology and Allergy