How to format your references using the Archives of Dermatological Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Dermatological Research. 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 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

Dillehay TD (2002) Archaeology. Climate and human migrations. Science 298:764–765

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilusz JE, Sharp PA (2013) Molecular biology. A circuitous route to noncoding RNA. Science 340:440–441

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyer P, Saez L, Young MW (2006) PER-TIM interactions in living Drosophila cells: an interval timer for the circadian clock. Science 311:226–229

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Carreira S, Goodall J, Aksan I, et al (2005) Mitf cooperates with Rb1 and activates p21Cip1 expression to regulate cell cycle progression. Nature 433:764–769

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo L, Maunder RG, Wang J, Yang L-L (2010) Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Reichow B, Doehring P, Cicchetti DV, Volkmar FR (2011) Evidence-Based Practices and Treatments for Children with Autism. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Cremonesi P, Modica P, Pagano R, et al (2015) Personalized and Context-Aware TV Program Recommendations Based on Implicit Feedback. In: Stuckenschmidt H, Jannach D (eds) E-Commerce and Web Technologies: 16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 57–68

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 Archives of Dermatological Research.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Healthcare’s Dirty Little Secret: Results From Many Clinical Trials Are Unreliable. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/healthcares-dirty-little-secret-results-from-many-clinical-trials-are-unreliable/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2011) Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Mailing Credentials to Applicants’ Residences Would Not Be Consistent with DHS Policy. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jategaonkar SP (2009) Two essays on stock repurchases and insider trading. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Atkinson S, Davey M (2017) Manslaughter Is Charge for 5 In Flint Crisis. New York Times A1

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	Archives of Dermatological Research
Abbreviation	Arch. Derm. Res.
ISSN (print)	0340-3696
ISSN (online)	1432-069X
Scope	General Medicine Dermatology