How to format your references using the Expert Review of Dermatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

White SH. Biophysical dissection of membrane proteins. Nature. 459(7245), 344–346 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

Rodríguez-Trelles F, Rodríguez MA. Comment on “Global genetic change tracks global climate warming in Drosophila subobscura.” Science. 315(5818), 1497; author reply 1497 (2007).

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore SD, McGinness KE, Sauer RT. Structural biology. A glimpse into tmRNA-mediated ribosome rescue. Science. 300(5616), 72–73 (2003).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Reeves EP, Lu H, Jacobs HL, et al. Killing activity of neutrophils is mediated through activation of proteases by K+ flux. Nature. 416(6878), 291–297 (2002).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kääriäinen T, Cameron D, Kääriäinen M-L, Sherman A. Atomic Layer Deposition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Haber A, Shepherd N, editors. After Ethics: Ancestral Voices and Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Shams F, Tribastone M. Power Trading Coordination in Smart Grids Using Dynamic Learning and Coalitional Game Theory. In: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 12th International Conference, QEST 2015, Madrid, Spain, September 1-3, 2015, Proceedings. Campos J, Haverkort BR (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 54–69 (2015).

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 Expert Review of Dermatology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Drone Quadcopter Explores Volcanic Eruption [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/drone-quadcopter-explores-volcanic-eruption/.

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. Human Resources Research and Development Results Can Be Better Managed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Born KB. Student and Principal Perceptions of the California High School Proficiency Examination in Community Schools: A Case Study. (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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Top Chechen Reported Killed. New York Times, A8 (2002).

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	Expert Review of Dermatology
ISSN (print)	1746-9872
ISSN (online)	1746-9880
Scope