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

Cuomo S. Beyond the ivory tower. The sinews of war: ancient catapults. Science. 2004 Feb;303(5659):771–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wright KP Jr, Czeisler CA. Absence of circadian phase resetting in response to bright light behind the knees. Science. 2002 Jul;297(5581):571.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bredesen DE, Rao RV, Mehlen P. Cell death in the nervous system. Nature. 2006 Oct;443(7113):796–802.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nguyen D, Joshi-Datar A, Lepine F, Bauerle E, Olakanmi O, Beer K, et al. Active starvation responses mediate antibiotic tolerance in biofilms and nutrient-limited bacteria. Science. 2011 Nov;334(6058):982–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zito R. Electrochemical Water Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Kotzé P, Marsden G, Lindgaard G, Wesson J, Winckler M, editors. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013: 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2-6, 2013, Proceedings, Part III. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Tabar P, Maalouf W. The Emergence of a ‘Diasporic Political Field’: A Case for Political Remittances. In: Nowicka M, Šerbedžija V, editors. Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016; pp 99–120.

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

Hale T. Underwater Explosions In Slow-Motion Look Absolutely Awesome [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/underwater-explosions-in-slow-motion-look-absolutely-awesome/

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. Domestic Aviation: Effects of Changes in How Airline Tickets Are Sold. 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

Sundell M. From fine art to fashion: Man Ray’s ambivalent avant-garde. 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

Feeney K. No ‘Yucks’ Allowed. New York Times. 2008 Aug;NJ8.

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

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