How to format your references using the Clinics in Dermatology citation style

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

Borovsky JE. Geophysics. Feedback of the magnetosphere. Science. 2014;343(6175):1086-1087.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan F, Huang L. Brittle to ductile transition in densified silica glass. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5035.

A journal article with 3 authors

Flores I, Cayuela ML, Blasco MA. Effects of telomerase and telomere length on epidermal stem cell behavior. Science. 2005;309(5738):1253-1256.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Assmann M, Veit F, Bayer M, van der Poel M, Hvam JM. Higher-order photon bunching in a semiconductor microcavity. Science. 2009;325(5938):297-300.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brower MC. Wind Resource Assessment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Shively CA, Wilson ME, eds. Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates: The Biology of the Gradient. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bergman D, Hooker JN. Graph Coloring Facets from All-Different Systems. In: Beldiceanu N, Jussien N, Pinson É, eds. Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Contraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimzation Problems: 9th International Conference, CPAIOR 2012, Nantes, France, May 28 – June1, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:50-65.

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 Clinics in Dermatology.

Blog post

Andrew E. The 3D Printer So Big It Can Make Houses. IFLScience. Published September 24, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/3d-printer-so-big-it-can-print-houses/

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. Airline Competition: Strategies for Addressing Financial and Competitive Problems in the Airline Industry. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Panjabi C. Real and Imagined Immigrant Identities in the Public Sphere: Representations of South Asian Women in Literary and Television Media. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 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

Robinson L. Christians and Muslims. New York Times. August 22, 2010:BR1.

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	Clinics in Dermatology
Abbreviation	Clin. Dermatol.
ISSN (print)	0738-081X
Scope	Dermatology

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