How to format your references using the Dermatopathology citation style

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

Chyba CF. Energy for microbial life on Europa. Nature. 2000 Jan;403(6768):381–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Douglas T, Young M. Viruses: making friends with old foes. Science. 2006 May;312(5775):873–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reddien PW, Cameron S, Horvitz HR. Phagocytosis promotes programmed cell death in C. elegans. Nature. 2001 Jul;412(6843):198–202.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Domínguez-Villar D, Carrasco RM, Pedraza J, Cheng H, Edwards RL, Willenbring JK. Early maximum extent of paleoglaciers from Mediterranean mountains during the last glaciation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2034.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bruen AA, Forcinito MA. Cryptography, Information Theory, and Error-Correction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Colin N, Sachsenmaier S, editors. Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Ackermann H, Röglin H, Schellbach U, Schweer N. Chapter 4. Analysis of Algorithms. In: Müller-Hannemann M, Schirra S, editors. Algorithm Engineering: Bridging the Gap between Algorithm Theory and Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 127–93.

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 Dermatopathology.

Blog post

Davis J. Zuckerberg And Chan Announce Plan To Tackle All Diseases Within A Century [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zuckerberg-and-chan-announce-plan-to-tackle-all-diseases-within-a-century/

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. No Child Left Behind Act: Education Actions Needed to Improve Local Implementation and State Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wenzel AB. Learning the culture of teaching: A middle school perspective. 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

Kelly K. James Staley’s Series of Unfortunate Events. New York Times. 2017 Aug;BU1.

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	Dermatopathology
Abbreviation	Dermatopathology (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2296-3529
Scope