How to format your references using the Experimental Dermatology citation style

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

Attaran A. Where did it all go wrong? Nature 2004: 430: 932–933.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanahan D, Weinberg R A. Retrospective: Judah Folkman (1933-2008). Science 2008: 319: 1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sherwood S C, Lanzante J R, Meyer C L. Radiosonde daytime biases and late-20th century warming. Science 2005: 309: 1556–1559.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yancheva G, Nowaczyk N R, Mingram J et al. Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon. Nature 2007: 445: 74–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoffmann W. The Economic Competitiveness of Renewable Energy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

Apolipoprotein Mimetics in the Management of Human Disease. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Su G. Excellence in Education. In: Tayeb O, Zahed A, Ritzen J, ed. Becoming a World-Class University: The case of King Abdulaziz University. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016: 57–75.

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 Experimental Dermatology.

Blog post

Fang J. Hitchcock Flick Elicits Response in Brain-Injured Patient [Internet]. IFLScience 2014: [cited 2018 Oct 30] DOI: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/hitchcock-flick-elicits-response-brain-injured-patient/

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. School District Claim to Department of Air Force. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warrick A D. “Deep” South: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and Environmental Knowledge, 1800-1974. 2017:

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

Otis J. Student Gains Confidence With Help From an ‘Angel.’ New York Times 2017: : A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Experimental Dermatology
Abbreviation	Exp. Dermatol.
ISSN (print)	0906-6705
ISSN (online)	1600-0625
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Dermatology