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. Caldecott KW. Molecular biology. Ribose--an internal threat to DNA. Science. 2014;343:260–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Friedman JR, Nunnari J. Mitochondrial form and function. Nature. 2014;505:335–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wardle DA, Nilsson M-C, Zackrisson O. Fire-derived charcoal causes loss of forest humus. Science. 2008;320:629.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Milde S, Fox AN, Freeman MR, Coleman MP. Deletions within its subcellular targeting domain enhance the axon protective capacity of Nmnat2 in vivo. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Marage J-P, Mori Y. Sonar and Underwater Acoustics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Beveridge A, Griggs JR, Hogben L, Musiker G, Tetali P, editors. Recent Trends in Combinatorics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Smith AS, Birnie AK, French JA. Prenatal Androgens Affect Development and Behavior in Primates. In: Clancy KBH, Hinde K, Rutherford JN, editors. Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 103–31.

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. Will Next-Generation Wearable Sensors Make Us Healthier? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/will-next-generation-wearable-sensors-make-us-healthier/

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: Status of Research on the Safety of Cellular Telephones. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Nov. Report No.: RCED-95-32.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bockler T. Legal advocacy program for low-income children with disabilities: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Leland J. Gloria Steinem Never Stops. New York Times. 2016 Oct 7;MB1.

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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