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

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

1. Smaglik P. Looking for a fast track. Nature. 2004;431:381.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lansbury PT, Lashuel HA. A century-old debate on protein aggregation and neurodegeneration enters the clinic. Nature. 2006;443:774–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Shi F, Li J, Wilson RJS. A tree-ring reconstruction of the South Asian summer monsoon index over the past millennium. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6739.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pagani M, Caldeira K, Archer D, Zachos JC. Atmosphere. An ancient carbon mystery. Science. 2006;314:1556–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG. Funding Atlas 2012. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

1. Cao B-Y, Nasseri H, editors. Fuzzy Information & Engineering and Operations Research & Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Scattolin N, Zanolla S, Rodà A, Canazza S. SoundingARM Assisted Representation of a Map. In: Bosse T, Cook DJ, Neerincx M, Sadri F, editors. Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions. Paris: Atlantis Press; 2013. p. 73–86.

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 Translational Allergy.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. What’s The Real Deal About The Atacama “Alien”? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what’s-real-deal-about-atacama-alien/. 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. Space Acquisitions: Space Based Infrared System Could Benefit from Technology Insertion Planning. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Apr. Report No.: GAO-15-366.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Watson AM. A novel role for MUC7 mucin glycoprotein in the innate immunity and genetic propensity of asthma [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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. Greenhouse L. Free-Speech Case Divides Bush and Religious Right. New York Times. 2007 Mar 18;A22.

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 Translational Allergy
Abbreviation	Clin. Transl. Allergy
ISSN (online)	2045-7022
Scope