How to format your references using the Case Reports in Dermatology citation style

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

Hogg PJ. Composites in armor. Science. 2006 Nov;314(5802):1100–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yen H-CS, Elledge SJ. Identification of SCF ubiquitin ligase substrates by global protein stability profiling. Science. 2008 Nov;322(5903):923–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Long SB, Casey PJ, Beese LS. Reaction path of protein farnesyltransferase at atomic resolution. Nature. 2002 Oct;419(6907):645–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ilani S, Martin J, Teitelbaum E, Smet JH, Mahalu D, Umansky V, et al. The microscopic nature of localization in the quantum Hall effect. Nature. 2004 Jan;427(6972):328–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heads G. Living Mindfully. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Krogstie J, Kautz K, Allen D, editors. Mobile Information Systems II: IFIP International Working Conference on Mobile Information Systems, (MOBIS) Leeds, UK, December 6–7, 2005. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Tabu K, Bizen N, Taga T, Tanaka S. Gene Regulation of Prominin-1 (CD133) in Normal and Cancerous Tissues. In: Corbeil D, editor. Prominin-1 (CD133): New Insights on Stem & Cancer Stem Cell Biology. New York, NY: Springer; 2013; pp 73–85.

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 Case Reports in Dermatology.

Blog post

Andrews R. This Somersaulting Knight Proves These Warriors Were Surprisingly Agile [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-somersaulting-knight-proves-these-warriors-were-surprisingly-agile/

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. Air Traffic Control: Evolution and Status of FAA’s Automation Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

San Miguel AM. Lived experiences and perceptions on mentoring among Latina scientists and engineers. 2010

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

Barron J. A Rail Terminal With Flair and Grandeur Is a Survivor. New York Times. 2016 Oct;A17.

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	Case Reports in Dermatology
Abbreviation	Case Rep. Dermatol.
ISSN (online)	1662-6567
Scope	Dermatology

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