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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British 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

Anderson RS. GEOPHYSICS. Pinched topography initiates the critical zone. Science 2015; 350:506–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milisavljevic D, Fesen RA. Supernovae. The bubble-like interior of the core-collapse supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. Science 2015; 347:526–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Campbell JE, Lobell DB, Field CB. Greater transportation energy and GHG offsets from bioelectricity than ethanol. Science 2009; 324:1055–7.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Libert S, Zwiener J, Chu X, et al. Regulation of Drosophila life span by olfaction and food-derived odors. Science 2007; 315:1133–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abran A. Software Project Estimation. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Biagini F. Elementi di Probabilità e Statistica. Milano, Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Drygaś P, Król A. Various Kinds of Ordinal Sums of Fuzzy Implications. In: Novel Developments in Uncertainty Representation and Processing: Advances in Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets – Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets (Atanassov KT, Castillo O, Kacprzyk J, et al., eds). Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016; 37–49.

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 British Journal of Dermatology.

Blog post

Andrew E. What Is Going On In Lake Erie? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. 2014.URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-going-lake-erie/ [accessed on 30 October 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. No Child Left Behind Act: Education Should Clarify Guidance and Address Potential Compliance Issues for Schools in Corrective Action and Restructuring Status. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cole Jackson M. National school reform: the benefits of civility and ethics instruction. 2015.

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

McKINLEY JC Jr. For Manhattan Fare-Beaters, a One-Way Ticket to Court May Be Gone Soon. New York Times. 2017; :A18.

In-text citations

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

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	British Journal of Dermatology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Dermatol.
ISSN (print)	0007-0963
ISSN (online)	1365-2133
Scope	Dermatology

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