How to format your references using the Clinical Skin Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Skin Cancer. 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

Bourzac K. Microbiome: the bacterial tightrope. Nature. 2014;516(7529):S14-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alperin M, Hoehler T. Biogeochemistry. The ongoing mystery of sea-floor methane. Science. 2010;329(5989):288-289.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polat EO, Balcı O, Kocabas C. Graphene based flexible electrochromic devices. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6484.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Klironomos JN, Allen MF, Rillig MC, et al. Abrupt rise in atmospheric CO2 overestimates community response in a model plant-soil system. Nature. 2005;433(7026):621-624.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kent J. ADA in Details. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Arts B, Bommel S van, Ros-Tonen M, Verschoor G, eds. Forest-People Interfaces: Understanding Community Forestry and Biocultural Diversity. Wageningen Academic Publishers; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Job G, Rüffler R. Chemical Potential. In: Rüffler R, ed. Physical Chemistry from a Different Angle: Introducing Chemical Equilibrium, Kinetics and Electrochemistry by Numerous Experiments. Springer International Publishing; 2016:93-128.

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 Clinical Skin Cancer.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. NASA Just Revealed 12 New Astronauts - But No One Knows Where They’re Going. IFLScience. Published June 8, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-just-revealed-12-new-astronauts-but-no-one-knows-where-theyre-going/

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. Screening Partnership Program: Improved Cost Estimates Can Enhance Program Decision Making. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Monteiro KR. An Experimental Study of Corrective Feedback on Synchronous Oral Computer-Mediated Communication. Doctoral dissertation. 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

Schwartz J. ‘A Conservative Climate Solution’: Republican Group Calls for a Carbon Tax. New York Times. February 8, 2017:A13.

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	Clinical Skin Cancer
Abbreviation	Clin. Skin Cancer
ISSN (print)	2405-8645
Scope	Dermatology Oncology