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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australasian Journal of 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

Stanley M. Perspective: Vaccinate boys too. Nature. 2012 Aug 30;488(7413):S10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barton GM, Medzhitov R. Toll-like receptor signaling pathways. Science. 2003 Jun 6;300(5625):1524–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang CY, Ayliffe MA, Timmis JN. Direct measurement of the transfer rate of chloroplast DNA into the nucleus. Nature. 2003 Mar 6;422(6927):72–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kafsack BFC, Pena JDO, Coppens I, Ravindran S, Boothroyd JC, Carruthers VB. Rapid membrane disruption by a perforin-like protein facilitates parasite exit from host cells. Science. 2009 Jan 23;323(5913):530–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey D. Aeronautical Radio Communication Systems and Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Sadewasser S, Glatzel T, editors. Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy: Measuring and Compensating Electrostatic Forces. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. XIV, 334 p. (Springer Series in Surface Sciences; vol. 48).

A chapter in an edited book

Bartlett L, Mogusu E. Teachers’ Understandings And Implementation Of Learner-Centered Pedagogy. In: Bartlett L, editor. Teaching in Tension: International Pedagogies, National Policies, and Teachers’ Practices in Tanzania. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2013. p. 61–74.

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 Australasian Journal of Dermatology.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. DNA Origami Just Got Better. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dna-origami-just-got-better/

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. Transit Grants: Department of Labor’s Certification Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Apr. Report No.: T-RCED-00-157.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Prima MB. Waiting for Lefty: Adversity and the American Dream [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Hollander S. Imagining a Place Where Cheers Never End. New York Times. 2008 Aug 10;CY6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Australasian Journal of Dermatology
Abbreviation	Australas. J. Dermatol.
ISSN (print)	0004-8380
ISSN (online)	1440-0960
Scope	Dermatology