How to format your references using the Dermatology citation style

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

Tommassen J. Biochemistry. Getting into and through the outer membrane. Science. 2007 Aug;317(5840):903–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown MS, Goldstein JL. Biomedicine. Lowering LDL--not only how low, but how long? Science. 2006 Mar;311(5768):1721–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang M, Atkinson KR, Baughman RH. Multifunctional carbon nanotube yarns by downsizing an ancient technology. Science. 2004 Nov;306(5700):1358–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lezec HJ, Degiron A, Devaux E, Linke RA, Martin-Moreno L, Garcia-Vidal FJ, et al. Beaming light from a subwavelength aperture. Science. 2002 Aug;297(5582):820–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ludders JW, McMillan M. Errors in Veterinary Anesthesia. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Ng I, Parry G, Wild P, McFarlane D, Tasker P, editors. Complex Engineering Service Systems: Concepts and Research. London: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Roth-Bejerano N, Navarro-Ródenas A, Gutiérrez A. Types of Mycorrhizal Association. In: Kagan-Zur V, Roth-Bejerano N, Sitrit Y, Morte A, editors. Desert Truffles: Phylogeny, Physiology, Distribution and Domestication. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014; pp 69–80.

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 Dermatology.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Why A Zika Vaccine Is A Long Way Off [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-a-zika-vaccine-is-a-long-way-off/

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. Inspectors General: Information on Resources and Selected Accomplishments of Five Inspectors Generals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ko T-CT. The ALISA delta(CRC) classifier for natural surfaces: Viewpoint-invariant and illumination-invariant classification of natural surfaces using general-purpose color and texture features with the ALISA delta(CRC) classifier. 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

Gustines GG. TV’s Go-To Guy For Playing Truth or Dare. New York Times. 2011 Jul;AR17.

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
Abbreviation	Dermatology
ISSN (print)	1018-8665
ISSN (online)	1421-9832
Scope	Dermatology