How to format your references using the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Clinical Dermatology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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. Patel AD. Science & music: talk of the tone. Nature. 2008;453:726–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jiang J-H, John S. Photonic architectures for equilibrium high-temperature Bose-Einstein condensation in dichalcogenide monolayers. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7432.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Jiang Q-X, Wang D-N, MacKinnon R. Electron microscopic analysis of KvAP voltage-dependent K+ channels in an open conformation. Nature. 2004;430:806–10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hu J, Dziumbla S, Lin J, Bibli S-I, Zukunft S, de Mos J, et al. Inhibition of soluble epoxide hydrolase prevents diabetic retinopathy. Nature. 2017;552:248–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bennett DH. Bennett’s Cardiac Arrhythmias. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Gelenbe E, Lent R, Sakellari G, editors. Computer and Information Sciences II: 26th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences. London: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Recker J, Safrudin N, Rosemann M. How Novices Model Business Processes. In: Hull R, Mendling J, Tai S, editors. Business Process Management: 8th International Conference, BPM 2010, Hoboken, NJ, USA, September 13-16, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 29–44.

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 American Journal of Clinical Dermatology.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Scientists Find Earth’s Geological Birthmarks [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-find-earth-s-geological-birthmarks/

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. ADP Modernization: Health Care Financing Administration’s Software Redesign Contract. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Mar. Report No.: IMTEC-89-15.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Salonga-Moreno DR. Pressure ulcer prevention and management curriculum for home health agencies [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Sisario B. The Chainsmokers Bump Drake Off No. 1. New York Times. 2017 Apr 17;C3.

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	American Journal of Clinical Dermatology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Clin. Dermatol.
ISSN (print)	1175-0561
ISSN (online)	1179-1888
Scope	General Medicine Dermatology