How to format your references using the International Archives of Allergy and Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Archives of Allergy and Immunology. 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

Montgomery SL. Newton in Japan. Nature. 2001 May;411(6833):25.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wardle DA, Lindahl BD. Ecology. Disentangling global soil fungal diversity. Science. 2014 Nov;346(6213):1052–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wookey J, Kendall J-M, Barruol G. Mid-mantle deformation inferred from seismic anisotropy. Nature. 2002 Feb;415(6873):777–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tanaka Y, Fukushima H, Okanoya K, Myowa-Yamakoshi M. Mothers’ multimodal information processing is modulated by multimodal interactions with their infants. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct;4:6623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dye FJ. Dictionary of Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine, and Translational Medicine. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Quinn GP, Vadaparampil ST, editors. Reproductive Health and Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Brodusch N, Trudeau ML, Michaud P, Brochu M, Rodrigue L, Boselli J, et al. Improvement in the Characterization of the 2099 Al-Li Alloy by FE-SEM. In: Weiland H, Rollett AD, Cassada WA, editors. ICAA13 Pittsburgh: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Aluminum Alloys. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 23–8.

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 International Archives of Allergy and Immunology.

Blog post

Davis J. Eating Fish Linked To A Lower Risk Of Depression [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/eating-fish-linked-decrease-risk-depression/

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. GAO Research Guide: Electronic Data Processing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Guo Z. Experimental Analysis of Polymer Nanocomposite Foaming Using Carbon Dioxide. 2008

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

Vecsey G. Jets May Change, But Ryan Says He Won’t. New York Times. 2011 Jan;B11.

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	International Archives of Allergy and Immunology
Abbreviation	Int. Arch. Allergy Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1018-2438
ISSN (online)	1423-0097
Scope	Immunology General Medicine Immunology and Allergy