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

Pain E (2008) Science careers. Measuring the impact of invasive plants. Science 320:1516

A journal article with 2 authors

Piketty T, Saez E (2014) Inequality in the long run. Science 344:838–843

A journal article with 3 authors

Joughin I, Alley RB, Holland DM (2012) Ice-sheet response to oceanic forcing. Science 338:1172–1176

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cao T, Wei C, Mao L, Li Y (2014) Extrinsic 2D chirality: giant circular conversion dichroism from a metal-dielectric-metal square array. Sci Rep 4:7442

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camman C, Fiore C, Livolsi L, Querro P (2017) Supply Chain Management and Business Performance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Baessler K, Burgio KL, Norton PA, et al (2008) Pelvic Floor Re-education: Principles and Practice, Second Edition. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Simoen E, Lombaert G (2016) Bayesian Parameter Estimation. In: Chatzi E, Papadimitriou C (eds) Identification Methods for Structural Health Monitoring. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 89–115

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) We Care About Dementia, But We Often Don’t Know What Causes It. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/we-care-about-dementia-we-often-don-t-know-what-causes-it/. 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 (1988) FAA Appropriation Issues. 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

Laskey E (2013) Plasma glucagon during development of insulin resistance among healthy individuals. 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

Gorman J (2016) Buzzed: Sweets Raise Hopes Among Bees. New York Times D2

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