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

Murphy DM. Atmospheric science. Something in the air. Science. 307(5717), 1888–1890 (2005).

A journal article with 2 authors

Kessler A, Baldwin IT. Defensive function of herbivore-induced plant volatile emissions in nature. Science. 291(5511), 2141–2144 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Stefanová I, Dorfman JR, Germain RN. Self-recognition promotes the foreign antigen sensitivity of naive T lymphocytes. Nature. 420(6914), 429–434 (2002).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Raby CR, Alexis DM, Dickinson A, Clayton NS. Planning for the future by western scrub-jays. Nature. 445(7130), 919–921 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwedt G. Chemie und Literatur - ein ungewöhnlicher Flirt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Wichert R, Eberhardt B, editors. Ambient Assisted Living: 5. AAL-Kongress 2012 Berlin, Germany, January 24-25, 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Patel B. Non-surgical Root Canal Treatment. In: Endodontic Treatment, Retreatment, and Surgery: Mastering Clinical Practice. Patel B (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 71–100 (2016).

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. Are NHS Patients Really More Likely To Die At Weekends? Here Are The Facts [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-nhs-patients-really-more-likely-die-weekends-here-are-facts/.

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. Weather Service Modernization: Risks Remain That Full Systems Potential Will Not be Achieved. 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

Mosbacker HL. Control of Electrical Transport Mechanisms at Metal-Zinc Oxide Interfaces by Subsurface Defect Engineering with Remote Plasma Treatment. (2008).

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

Shear MD, Apuzzo M. Trump Fires Comey Amid Russia Inquiry. New York Times, A1 (2017).

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

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