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

Shonkoff JP. Protecting brains, not simply stimulating minds. Science. 2011 Aug;333(6045):982–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin W, Koonin EV. Introns and the origin of nucleus-cytosol compartmentalization. Nature. 2006 Mar;440(7080):41–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jablonski D, Roy K, Valentine JW. Out of the tropics: evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity gradient. Science. 2006 Oct;314(5796):102–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brinster S, Lamberet G, Staels B, Trieu-Cuot P, Gruss A, Poyart C. Type II fatty acid synthesis is not a suitable antibiotic target for Gram-positive pathogens. Nature. 2009 Mar;458(7234):83–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan CT, Hwang YM, Lin L, Chen Y-C. Design and Fabrication of Self-Powered Micro-Harvesters. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Siddiqi K, Pizer SM, editors. Medial Representations: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Stenzig J, Foo RS-Y. DNA Methylation in Heart Failure. In: Backs J, McKinsey TA, editors. Epigenetics in Cardiac Disease. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 75–102.

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. These Cute Sea Slugs Are The Sheep Of The Sea [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-cute-sea-slugs-are-sheep-sea/

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. Space Station: Cost Control Problems Are Worsening. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Medina LM. Living with Global Shocks: Examining the Responses of Firms and Governments. 2012

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 K. Marlo Thomas: “My Whole Life I’ve Had My Dukes Up.” New York Times. 1973 Mar;AL135.

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

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