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

Verma IM. Medicine. Gene therapy that works. Science. 2013 Aug;341(6148):853–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alonso JM, Stepanova AN. The ethylene signaling pathway. Science. 2004 Nov;306(5701):1513–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polikanov YS, Blaha GM, Steitz TA. How hibernation factors RMF, HPF, and YfiA turn off protein synthesis. Science. 2012 May;336(6083):915–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Grigorenko AN, Geim AK, Gleeson HF, Zhang Y, Firsov AA, Khrushchev IY, et al. Nanofabricated media with negative permeability at visible frequencies. Nature. 2005 Nov;438(7066):335–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fink JK. Metallized and Magnetic Polymers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Kerschen G, editor. Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Ishimori H, Kobayashi T, Ohki H, Okada H, Shimizu Y, Tanimoto M. Δ(3N 2). In: Kobayashi T, Ohki H, Okada H, Shimizu Y, Tanimoto M, editors. An Introduction to Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetries for Particle Physicists. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012; pp 87–95.

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

Andrew E. Astronomers Measure Exoplanet’s Day For The First Time [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Apr [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-measure-exoplanet’s-day-first-time/

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. Status of the Marine Corps Integrated Fire and Air Support System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhu Z. Financial restatements: Implications for management earnings forecasts. 2010

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

Williams J. Disappearing Act: The Art and Fraud of Faking Your Own Death. New York Times. 2016 Aug;C4.

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