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

Rose S. Darwin 200: Should scientists study race and IQ? NO: Science and society do not benefit. Nature 2009; 457:786–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keegstra K, Walton J. Plant science. Beta-glucans--brewer’s bane, dietician’s delight. Science 2006; 311:1872–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore JD, Kirk JA, Hunt T. Unmasking the S-phase-promoting potential of cyclin B1. Science 2003; 300:987–90.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhao H, Holladay JE, Brown H, Zhang ZC. Metal chlorides in ionic liquid solvents convert sugars to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural. Science 2007; 316:1597–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mascia L. Polymers in Industry from A-Z. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

Peacock WF, Clark CL, editors. Short Stay Management of Atrial Fibrillation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Gallagher AG, Matt Ritter E. Virtual Reality: Objective Assessment, Education, and Training. In: Satava RM, Gaspari A, Lorenzo ND, editors. Emerging Technologies in Surgery. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. page 27–33.

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

Andrew E. Functional 3D Brain Tissue Successfully Grown From Stem Cells [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/functional-3d-brain-tissue-successfully-grown-stem-cells/

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. Federal Transit Programs: Federal Transit Administration Has Opportunities to Improve Performance Accountability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Immaneni RN. An efficient approach to machine learning based text classification through distributed computing. 2015;

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

Kelly M. CLINTON CANCELS BAIRD NOMINATION FOR JUSTICE DEPT. New York Times1993; :A1.

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