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

Endo M. Obituary: Setsuro Ebashi (1922-2006). Nature. 2006 Aug 31;442(7106):996.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenthal Y, Broccoli AJ. Atmospheric science. In search of paleo-ENSO. Science. 2004 Apr 9;304(5668):219–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu Y, Nakano M, Ikeda T. Photomechanics: directed bending of a polymer film by light. Nature. 2003 Sep 11;425(6954):145.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yu W, Gius D, Onyango P, Muldoon-Jacobs K, Karp J, Feinberg AP, et al. Epigenetic silencing of tumour suppressor gene p15 by its antisense RNA. Nature. 2008 Jan 10;451(7175):202–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minoli D. Mobile Video with Mobile IPv6. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Nešetřil J. Sparsity: Graphs, Structures, and Algorithms. Ossona de Mendez P, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. XXIII, 459 p. 132 illus., 100 illus. in color. (Algorithms and Combinatorics; vol. 28).

A chapter in an edited book

Nevile JW. Policies to Minimise the Costs of Unemployment. In: Harcourt GC, Kriesler P, Nevile JW, editors. Post-Keynesian Essays from Down Under Volume III: Essays on Ethics, Social Justice and Economics: Theory and Policy in an Historical Context. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 45–66. (ACOSS paper).

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

Fang J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Water found on extrasolar ‘hot Jupiter.’ Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/water-found-extrasolar-‘hot-jupiter’/

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. NASA: Major Management Challenges and Program Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Jun. Report No.: GAO-03-849T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Butts P. Green Roof Vegetable Production in Three Different Growth Media [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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

Gregory P. This Close to a Killer. New York Times. 2013 Nov 7;MM36.

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