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. Fenton MB. Ecology. The world through a bat’s ear. Science. 2011;333:528–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Safinya CR, Li Y. Materials science. Bundling with x-rays. Science. 2010;327:529–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Halley JM, Iwasa Y, Vokou D. Comment on “Extinction debt and windows of conservation opportunity in the Brazilian Amazon.” Science. 2013;339:271.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Simionescu A, Allen SW, Mantz A, Werner N, Takei Y, Morris RG, et al. Baryons at the edge of the X-ray-brightest galaxy cluster. Science. 2011;331:1576–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Jackson J. Political Oratory and Cartooning. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Gannon T, Fletcher M, Ball T, editors. Mack Scogin Merrill Elam: Knowlton Hall. New York, NY: Princeton Archit. Press; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Heinrich B. Exchange Coupling in Magnetic Multilayers. In: Zabel H, Bader SD, editors. Magnetic Heterostructures: Advances and Perspectives in Spinstructures and Spintransport. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 185–250.

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. Andrew E. Time-Lapse Footage From ISS Gives Spectacular Aerial View of Earth at Night [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/time-lapse-footage-iss-gives-spectacular-aerial-view-earth-night/

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. What Assurance Does Office of Education’s Eligibility Process Provide? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Jan. Report No.: HRD-78-120.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Minick V. Educators’ Beliefs About and Approaches to the Evaluation of Student Writing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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

1. Alvarez L. Pandemonium Followed Rumor of Second Airport Attacker. New York Times. 2017 Jan 9;A9.

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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