How to format your references using the Current Allergy and Asthma Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Allergy and Asthma Reports. 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. Schiermeier Q. Austrian physics meeting passes without boycott. Nature. 2000;406:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sneppen K, Semsey S. Mismatch repair at stop codons is directed independent of GATC methylation on the Escherichia coli chromosome. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7346.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hayden EJ, Ferrada E, Wagner A. Cryptic genetic variation promotes rapid evolutionary adaptation in an RNA enzyme. Nature. 2011;474:92–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Colombo K, Grill SW, Kimple RJ, Willard FS, Siderovski DP, Gönczy P. Translation of polarity cues into asymmetric spindle positioning in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. Science. 2003;300:1957–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Coe JT. Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2000.

An edited book

1. Baryshev Y. Fundamental Questions of Practical Cosmology: Exploring the Realm of Galaxies. Teerikorpi P, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sakiyama K, Batina L. Arithmetic for Public-Key Cryptography. In: Verbauwhede IMR, editor. Secure Integrated Circuits and Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010. p. 63–78.

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 Current Allergy and Asthma Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Boeing Wants To Race SpaceX To The Surface Of Mars [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/boeing-wants-to-race-spacex-to-the-surface-of-mars/. 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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Federal Business Continuity and Contingency Plans and Day One Strategies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Oct. Report No.: T-AIMD-00-40.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Garcia CA. Tracking chemistry self-efficacy and achievement in a preparatory chemistry course [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2010.

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. Detainee Case Hits on Limits Of Presidency. New York Times. 2006 Jan 10;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	Current Allergy and Asthma Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Allergy Asthma Rep.
ISSN (print)	1529-7322
ISSN (online)	1534-6315
Scope	Immunology and Allergy Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine