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

Hayashi S. Biophysics. Silencing neurons with light. Science 2014;344:369–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lord CJ, Ashworth A. The DNA damage response and cancer therapy. Nature 2012;481:287–94.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ambrose KV, Koppenhöfer AM, Belanger FC. Horizontal gene transfer of a bacterial insect toxin gene into the Epichloë fungal symbionts of grasses. Sci Rep 2014;4:5562.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stremlau M, Owens CM, Perron MJ, Kiessling M, Autissier P, Sodroski J. The cytoplasmic body component TRIM5alpha restricts HIV-1 infection in Old World monkeys. Nature 2004;427:848–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ben Chouikha M. Organizational Design for Knowledge Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

McCarthy J, editor. Trends in Functional Programming: 14th International Symposium, TFP 2013, Provo, UT, USA, May 14-16, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Vol 8322. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Vinocur DN, Medina LS. Imaging in the Evaluation of Children with Suspected Craniosynostosis. In: Medina LS, Applegate KE, Blackmore CC, editors. Evidence-Based Imaging in Pediatrics: Optimizing Imaging in Pediatric Patient Care. New York, NY: Springer; 2010:43–52.

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

O`Callaghan J. First Ever Detection Of Lithium From Nova Could Solve Cosmic Conundrum. [homepage on the Internet] IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/embargo-29-july-11am-bst-first-ever-detection-lithium-nova-could-solve-cosmic-conundrum/.

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. Stronger Actions Needed To Recover $730 Million in Defaulted National Direct Student Loans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chon JY. Coping as a mediator of the relation between teacher perceived stress and teacher-student relationships. 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

Johnson G. Still Exerting a Hold on Science. New York Times. June 24, 2014:D3.

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