How to format your references using the WAO Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for WAO Journal. 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

Ory J. Scientists and societies. Two-body problem. Nature. 2004;429(6993):788.

A journal article with 2 authors

Andreasen R, Sharma M. Solar nebula heterogeneity in p-process samarium and neodymium isotopes. Science. 2006;314(5800):806-809.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaydos LJ, Wang W, Strome S. Gene repression. H3K27me and PRC2 transmit a memory of repression across generations and during development. Science. 2014;345(6203):1515-1518.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kawasaki H, Schiltz L, Chiu R, et al. ATF-2 has intrinsic histone acetyltransferase activity which is modulated by phosphorylation. Nature. 2000;405(6783):195-200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cunningham V. Victorian Poetry Now. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Saranto K, Castrén M, Kuusela T, Hyrynsalmi S, Ojala S, eds. Safe and Secure Cities: 5th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2014, Turku, Finland, August 18-20, 2014. Proceedings. Vol 450. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Zeng C, Jia W, He X. An Algorithm for Colour-Based Natural Scene Text Segmentation. In: Iwamura M, Shafait F, eds. Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition: 4th International Workshop, CBDAR 2011, Beijing, China, September 22, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:58-68.

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 WAO Journal.

Blog post

Hale T. The Comedy Wildlife Photography Award Finalists Are Absolutely Hilarious. IFLScience. October 19, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-comedy-wildlife-photography-award-finalists-are-absolutely-hilarious/

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. [Response to Request for Views on Application of P.L. 99-177 to Teacher Loan Cancellations]. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reich JC. An Iterative Feature Perturbation Method for Gene Selection from Microarray Data. Doctoral dissertation. 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

Kelly C. The Phantom Typist Revealed. New York Times. October 29, 2000:14WC8.

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	WAO Journal
Abbreviation	World Allergy Organ. J.
ISSN (print)	1939-4551
Scope	Immunology and Allergy