How to format your references using the The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Allergy and Clinical 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

Rouault TA. Microbiology. Pathogenic bacteria prefer heme. Science. 2004;305:1577–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pack CC, Born RT. Temporal dynamics of a neural solution to the aperture problem in visual area MT of macaque brain. Nature. 2001;409:1040–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buck WR, Lavier LL, Poliakov ANB. Modes of faulting at mid-ocean ridges. Nature. 2005;434:719–23.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Eisenhauer N, Stefanski A, Fisichelli NA, Rice K, Rich R, Reich PB. Warming shifts “worming”: effects of experimental warming on invasive earthworms in northern North America. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6890.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murthy DNP, Kurvinen M, Töyrylä I. Warranty Fraud Management: Reducing Fraud and Other Excess Costs in Warranty and Service Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Hadzic F. Mining of Data with Complex Structures. Tan H, Dillon TS, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XX, 328 p. (Studies in Computational Intelligence; vol. 333).

A chapter in an edited book

Porteš P, Laurinec M, Blat’ák O. Discrete-Difference Filter in Vehicle Dynamics Analysis. In: Brezina T, Jablonski R, editors. Recent Advances in Mechatronics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 19–24.

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 The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew E. We Created A New Material From Orange Peel That Can Clean Up Mercury Pollution [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/we-created-new-material-orange-peel-can-clean-mercury-pollution/

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. Telecommunications: Information on Low Power Television, FCC’s Spectrum Incentive Auction, and Unlicensed Spectrum Use. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Dec. Report No.: GAO-17-135.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mayberry DS. Total Relaxation Center, LLC [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Wagner J. Battered Mets Survive the Nationals. New York Times. 2017;D3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Abbreviation	J. Allergy Clin. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0091-6749
ISSN (online)	1097-6825
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy