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

Spottiswoode CN. Evolution. How cooperation defeats cheats. Science 2013; 342:1452–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Magnus D, Cho MK. Ethics. Issues in oocyte donation for stem cell research. Science 2005; 308:1747–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuwamura T, Kadota T, Suzuki S. Testing the low-density hypothesis for reversed sex change in polygynous fish: experiments in Labroides dimidiatus. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4369.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yoshimoto N, Tatematsu K, Iijima M, Niimi T, Maturana AD, Fujii I, Kondo A, Tanizawa K, Kuroda S. High-throughput de novo screening of receptor agonists with an automated single-cell analysis and isolation system. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4242.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Picard F, Tanguy C. Innovations and Techno-ecological Transition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Almeida JB. Rigorous Software Development: An Introduction to Program Verification. London: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang K, Shen X. Health Data Sharing with Misbehavior Detection. In: Shen X (sherman), editor. Security and Privacy for Mobile Healthcare Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. page 47–80.

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. How Do Human Leaders Compare To Animal Ones? [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-do-human-leaders-compare-animal-ones/

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. Advanced Technologies: Strengthened Federal Approach Needed to Help Identify and Mitigate Supply Risks for Critical Raw Materials. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hunt SA. A study of health care payment organizations’ culture and adaptability to revolutionary change. 2012;

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

Paulson M. Patinkin Bows Out Of ‘Comet.’ New York Times2017; :C1.

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