How to format your references using the Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, 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	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

Fekete DM. Developmental biology. Rocks that roll zebrafish. Science. 2003 Oct 10;302(5643):241–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sepúlveda J, Murray C. The state of global health in 2014. Science. 2014 Sep 12;345(6202):1275–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu BO, Zhao J, Feng Y. Active impedance metasurface with full 360° reflection phase tuning. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct 28;3:3059.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Masmanidis SC, Karabalin RB, De Vlaminck I, Borghs G, Freeman MR, Roukes ML. Multifunctional nanomechanical systems via tunably coupled piezoelectric actuation. Science. 2007 Aug 10;317(5839):780–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirchner T. Merger Arbitrage. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Davidson MH, Toth PP, Maki KC, Gotto AM, editors. Therapeutic Lipidology. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2007. XIX, 489 p. (Contemporary Cardiology).

A chapter in an edited book

Musso J. Chapter four Designing Good Governance: Democratic Network Reform in Los Angeles. In: Hendriks F, Gianoli A, Schaap L, editors. The Quest for Good Urban Governance: Theoretical Reflections and International Practices. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2015. p. 59–86.

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 Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. 200,000 More Children Have Been Vaccinated In Australia Following New Policies. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/200000-more-children-have-been-vaccinated-in-australia-following-new-policies/

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. Highway Emergency Relief: Strengthened Oversight of Project Eligibility Decisions Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Nov. Report No.: GAO-12-45.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck RE. Examining the relationship between self-initiated expatriation and cross-cultural adjustment among expatriate spouses within nonprofit organizations: A quantitative causal-comparative study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2012.

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

Crow K. City Is to Build the Largest DNA Lab, for a Grim Task. New York Times. 2001 Oct 7;147.

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	Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
Abbreviation	Iran. J. Allergy Asthma Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1735-1502
ISSN (online)	1735-5249
Scope	Immunology and Allergy