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

Graves JAM. Genomics. Recycling the Y chromosome. Science 2005;307:50–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu H, Tromp J. Mapping tectonic deformation in the crust and upper mantle beneath Europe and the North Atlantic Ocean. Science 2013;341:871–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Killian NJ, Jutras MJ, Buffalo EA. A map of visual space in the primate entorhinal cortex. Nature 2012;491:761–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Maida Y, Yasukawa M, Furuuchi M, et al. An RNA-dependent RNA polymerase formed by TERT and the RMRP RNA. Nature 2009;461:230–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brauer RL. Safety and Health for Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Shao L, Shan C, Luo J, Etoh M, editors. Multimedia Interaction and Intelligent User Interfaces: Principles, Methods and Applications. London: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Boachie-Adjei O. Indications for Spinal Osteotomy. In: Wang Y, Boachie-Adjei O, Lenke L, editors. Spinal Osteotomy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015:29–35.

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 D. How Our Discovery Of Microbe Traces In Ancient Rocks On Earth Could Help Us Find Life On Mars. [homepage on the Internet] IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-our-discovery-of-microbe-traces-in-ancient-rocks-on-earth-could-help-us-find-life-on-mars/.

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. University Funding: Federal Funding Mechanisms in Support of University Research. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Templeton TH. The Impact of Emergent Information and Communication Technology on Peacebuilding. 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

Gordon MR. Mattis Beseeches Pacific Officials to ‘Bear With Us.’ New York Times. June 2, 2017:A5.

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