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

Brantley SL (2008) Geology. Understanding soil time. Science 321:1454–1455

A journal article with 2 authors

Hossfeld U, Olsson L (2002) Portraits of science. From the modern synthesis to Lysenkoism, and back? Science 297:55–56

A journal article with 3 authors

Chatterjee A, Mitrović M, Fortunato S (2013) Universality in voting behavior: an empirical analysis. Sci Rep 3:1049

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li S-Z, Song Y, Zhang H-H, et al (2014) UbcH10 overexpression increases carcinogenesis and blocks ALLN susceptibility in colorectal cancer. Sci Rep 4:6910

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ergül Ö, Gürel L (2014) The Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA) for Solving Large-Scale Computational Electromagnetics Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bonitz M, Lopez J, Becker K, Thomsen H (2014) Complex Plasmas: Scientific Challenges and Technological Opportunities. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Talamonti MS (2016) Management Controversies and Treatment Strategies for Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer. In: Bentrem D, Benson AB (eds) Gastrointestinal Malignancies. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59–75

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 E (2015) Jupiter’s Core May Be Shrinking Faster Than Previously Believed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/jupiter-s-core-may-be-shrinking-faster-previously-believed/. 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 (1974) Federal Library Support Programs: Progress and Problems. 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

Jenrich MA (2017) “To treat her as a woman”: African American women and respectability in New York, 1860-1890. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Shear MD, Pear R (2017) Former Obama Aides Lead Opposition to the Effort to Repeal the Health Law. New York Times A18

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