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

Sutherland WJ (2003) Parallel extinction risk and global distribution of languages and species. Nature 423:276–279

A journal article with 2 authors

Stahler S, Palla F (2014) Astronomy. The beat of young stars. Science 345:514–515

A journal article with 3 authors

Rawson FJ, Downard AJ, Baronian KH (2014) Electrochemical detection of intracellular and cell membrane redox systems in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Sci Rep 4:5216

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Blasiak LC, Vaillancourt FH, Walsh CT, Drennan CL (2006) Crystal structure of the non-haem iron halogenase SyrB2 in syringomycin biosynthesis. Nature 440:368–371

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rajagopal R (2014) Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Seising R, Trillas E, Kacprzyk J (2015) Towards the Future of Fuzzy Logic. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bell SD (2012) Archaeal Orc1/Cdc6 Proteins. In: MacNeill S (ed) The Eukaryotic Replisome: a Guide to Protein Structure and Function. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 59–69

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

Luntz S (2014) Sleepless Mice Have Memory Protected. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/sleepless-mice-have-memory-protected/. 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 (1992) Department of Education: The Eisenhower Math and Science State Grant Program. 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

Simmons CI (2017) A Logistic Regression Analysis of Multiple Independent Variables Impacting Psychiatric Readmissions. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Cooper H, Shear MD, Searcey D (2017) Travel Ban on Chad Could Harm American Interests, Officials Say. New York Times A6

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

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