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

Smaglik P. Election returns. Nature. 2004 Nov;432(7015):417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nisbet EG, Sleep NH. The habitat and nature of early life. Nature. 2001 Feb;409(6823):1083–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Groenigen KJ, Osenberg CW, Hungate BA. Increased soil emissions of potent greenhouse gases under increased atmospheric CO2. Nature. 2011 Jul;475(7355):214–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Patil RA, Devan RS, Lin J-H, Liou Y, Ma Y-R. An efficient methodology for measurement of the average electrical properties of single one-dimensional NiO nanorods. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct;3:3070.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

George MD, Donley TG, Preshaw PM. Ultrasonic Periodontal Debridement. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Maudet N, Parsons S, Rahwan I, editors. Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Bassi E, Leoni D, Leucci S, Pane J, Vaccari L. Opening Public Deliberations: Transparency, Privacy, Anonymisation. In: Casanovas P, Pagallo U, Palmirani M, Sartor G, editors. AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems: AICOL 2013 International Workshops, AICOL-IV@IVR, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, July 21-27, 2013 and AICOL-V@SINTELNET-JURIX, Bologna, Italy, December 11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014; pp 41–53.

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

Andrew E. Quantum Computer Makes Finding New Physics More Difficult [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Jan

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. Training Necessary to Address Data Reliability Issues in NASA Agreement Database and to Minimize Potential Competition with Commercial Sector. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robles S. Transient over-voltages generated by solar photovoltaic inverters. 2013

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

Walsh MW. A.I.G. and U.S. Agree on Exit Plan, but Numbers Are Uncertain. New York Times. 2010 Oct;B6.

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