How to format your references using the Indian Dermatology Online Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Dermatology Online Journal (IDOJ). 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

Savage N. Metastasis: Resistance fighters. Nature 2015;528:S128-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

LaDeau SL, Clark JS. Rising CO2 levels and the fecundity of forest trees. Science 2001;292:95–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang Y, Forsyth DW, Savage B. Convective upwelling in the mantle beneath the Gulf of California. Nature 2009;462:499–501.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang H, Ma LG, Li JM, Zhao HY, Deng XW. Direct interaction of Arabidopsis cryptochromes with COP1 in light control development. Science 2001;294:154–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stewart JM. Managing for World Class Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2001.

An edited book

Ni P. Urban Innovation and Upgrading in China Shanty Towns: Changing the Rules of Development. (Oyeyinka B, Chen F, editors) Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Pachauri RK. Climate Change and Agroforestry. In: Nair PKR, Garrity D, editors. Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use. Advances in Agroforestry. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012:13–5.

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 Indian Dermatology Online Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. Fukushima Radiation Detected Off California Coast. [homepage on the Internet] IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/harmless-levels-fukushima-radiation-detected-california-coast/.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Actions Needed to Address Credit Union Systems’ Year 2000 Problem. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Oparnica D. The role of nurses in health care reform: A project report. 2013.

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

Davis JH, Rosenberg M. Even Defining Victory in Afghanistan Is Hard. New York Times. August 23, 2017:A7.

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	Indian Dermatology Online Journal
Abbreviation	Indian Dermatol. Online J.
ISSN (print)	2229-5178
ISSN (online)	2249-5673
Scope