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

Levasseur-Regourd A-C. Cometary dust unveiled. Science. 304(5678), 1762–1763 (2004).

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones PA, Takai D. The role of DNA methylation in mammalian epigenetics. Science. 293(5532), 1068–1070 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Verschuren D, Laird KR, Cumming BF. Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa during the past 1,100 years. Nature. 403(6768), 410–414 (2000).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jaworski T, Dewachter I, Lechat B, et al. GSK-3α/β kinases and amyloid production in vivo. Nature. 480(7376), E4-5; discussion E6 (2011).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee KB. Principles of Microelectromechanical Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Oppy G, Trakakis NN, editors. History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Lavery LA, Armstrong DG. Clinical Examination and Risk Classification of the Diabetic Foot. In: The Diabetic Foot: Medical and Surgical Management. Veves A, Giurini JM, LoGerfo FW (Eds.), Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 59–74 (2012).

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

Luntz S. Premenstrual Symptoms Linked To Inflamation. IFLScience (2016).

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. Comments on H.R. 7689. 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

Sutherland KA. The impact of early childhood programs on student achievement. (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

Barron J. Famous for Its Past, a Small New Jersey Town Struggles to Define Its Future. New York Times, A17 (2016).

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