How to format your references using the Dermatology and Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dermatology and Therapy. 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. Colegrave N. Sex releases the speed limit on evolution. Nature. 2002;420:664–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Roberts L, Jasny B. HIV/AIDS: money matters. Science. 2008;321:511.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yu X, Jin L, Zhou ZH. 3.88 A structure of cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus by cryo-electron microscopy. Nature. 2008;453:415–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhang Z, Xiao F, Xi J, Sun T, Xiao S, Wang H, et al. Encapsulating Pd nanoparticles in double-shelled graphene@carbon hollow spheres for excellent chemical catalytic property. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4053.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Gutiérrez Í, Meléndez J, Hernández E. Design and Characterization of Integrated Varactors for RF Applications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2007.

An edited book

1. Vymazal J. Wastewater Treatment in Constructed Wetlands with Horizontal Sub-Surface Flow. Kröpfelová L, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lehner M, Tichler R, Steinmüller H, Koppe M. Methanation. In: Tichler R, Steinmüller H, Koppe M, editors. Power-to-Gas: Technology and Business Models. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 41–61.

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 Dermatology and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Svalbard Will Soon Have Another “Doomsday Vault” For Storing Precious Literature. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Guaranteed Student Loans: Analysis of Insurance Premiums Charged by Guaranty Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Oct. Report No.: HRD-88-16BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ahlert D. Application of Graph Theoretic Clustering on Some Biomedical Data Sets [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

1. Kelly S. METRO FARE. New York Times. 2003 Mar 9;146.

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	Dermatology and Therapy
Abbreviation	Dermatol. Ther. (Heidelb.)
ISSN (print)	2193-8210
ISSN (online)	2190-9172
Scope	Dermatology