How to format your references using the Current Dermatology Reports citation style

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

1. Ivell R. Endocrinology. This hormone has been relaxin’ too long! Science. 2002;295:637–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tarasov L, Peltier WR. Arctic freshwater forcing of the Younger Dryas cold reversal. Nature. 2005;435:662–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Briggs F, Mangun GR, Usrey WM. Attention enhances synaptic efficacy and the signal-to-noise ratio in neural circuits. Nature. 2013;499:476–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Johnson DM, Liebhold AM, Tobin PC, Bjørnstad ON. Allee effects and pulsed invasion by the gypsy moth. Nature. 2006;444:361–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Massotte P, Corsi P. Smart Decisions in Complex Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Basu B, Chakravarty SR, Chakrabarti BK, Gangopadhyay K, editors. Econophysics and Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques. Milano: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hidalgo-Herrero M, Ortega-Mallén Y, Rubio F. Comparing Alternative Evaluation Strategies for Stream-Based Parallel Functional Languages. In: Horváth Z, Zsók V, Butterfield A, editors. Implementation and Application of Functional Languages: 18th International Symposium, IFL 2006, Budapest, Hungary, September 4-6, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 55–72.

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 Current Dermatology Reports.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. The Amazon Rainforest Is Dominated By Domesticated Trees. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Telecommunications: History and Current Issues Related to Radio Spectrum Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Jun. Report No.: GAO-02-814T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Spotts SL. A Comparative Analysis of Missouri Elementary School Arts Curriculums [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood 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

1. Belson K. Head Coach of Broncos Is Expected to Retire. New York Times. 2017 Jan 2;D5.

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	Current Dermatology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Dermatol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2162-4933
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