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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Budd GE. A palaeontological solution to the arthropod head problem. Nature 2002; 417:271–5.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Gillette MU, Sejnowski TJ. Physiology. Biological clocks coordinately keep life on time. Science 2005; 309:1196–8.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Mitchell JF, Stoner GR, Reynolds JH. Object-based attention determines dominance in binocular rivalry. Nature 2004; 429:410–3.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
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Christofk HR, Vander Heiden MG, Wu N, Asara JM, Cantley LC. Pyruvate kinase M2 is a phosphotyrosine-binding protein. Nature 2008; 452:181–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Misstear B, Banks D, Clark L. Water Wells and Boreholes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.
An edited book
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Corchado Rodriguez JM, Mitra S, Thampi SM, El-Alfy E-S, editors. Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
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Rizzo JM, Zeitouni NC. Advances in Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Malignant and Premalignant Lesions in Transplant Dermatology. In: Zwald F, Brown MD, editors. Advances in Transplant Dermatology: Clinical and Practical Implications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. page 59–70.

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
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Andrew D. How Do You Know You’re Not Living In A Computer Simulation? [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-do-you-know-youre-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Federal Programs for Education of the Handicapped: Issues and Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Beahm AC. The political ecology of tourism development in the Ecuadorian Amazon. 2009;

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
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Kishkovsky S. Russian Cancels Pardon Request In Chechen Case. New York Times2004; :A12.

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 titleDermato-Endocrinology
AbbreviationDermatoendocrinol.
ISSN (print)1938-1972
ISSN (online)1938-1980
ScopeDermatology
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

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