How to format your references using the Dermato-Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dermato-Endocrinology. 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

Brauman JI. Chemistry. Not so simple. Science 2008; 319:168.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gheiratmand M, Mullen KT. Orientation tuning in human colour vision at detection threshold. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilg O, Hanski I, Sittler B. Cyclic dynamics in a simple vertebrate predator-prey community. Science 2003; 302:866–8.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lamb MP, Dietrich WE, Aciego SM, Depaolo DJ, Manga M. Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by megaflood: implications for seepage erosion on Earth and Mars. Science 2008; 320:1067–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Orford J. Addiction Dilemmas. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Kościelny C. Modern Cryptography Primer: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Kos M, Leniček T. The Fetal Human Testis. In: Ježek D, editor. Atlas on the Human Testis: Normal Morphology and Pathology. London: Springer; 2013. page 55–68.

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 Dermato-Endocrinology.

Blog post

Fang J. Watch the First Flight of NASA’s Flying Saucer [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-first-flight-nasas-flying-saucer/

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. ADP Equipment: Buying Through GSA’s Office of Technology Plus Stores. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Connell AM. Customer retention and leadership in the nonprofit healthcare organization. 2008;

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

Dinardo K. An Orangutan Expert Advises Visiting Now. New York Times2016; :TR2.

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	Dermato-Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Dermatoendocrinol.
ISSN (print)	1938-1972
ISSN (online)	1938-1980
Scope	Dermatology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism