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

Kessler F. Plant science. Chloroplast delivery by UPS. Science 2012;338:622–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen A, Sooryakumar R. Patterned time-orbiting potentials for the confinement and assembly of magnetic dipoles. Sci Rep 2013;3:3124.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wessling M, Morcillo LG, Abdu S. Nanometer-thick lateral polyelectrolyte micropatterns induce macrosopic electro-osmotic chaotic fluid instabilities. Sci Rep 2014;4:4294.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang X, Willenbring H, Akkari Y, et al. Cell fusion is the principal source of bone-marrow-derived hepatocytes. Nature 2003;422:897–901.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee. Positive Displacement Pumps. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Ramasami P, Gupta Bhowon M, Jhaumeer Laulloo S, Li Kam Wah H, editors. Crystallizing Ideas – The Role of Chemistry. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Merkel R, Dittmann J, Vielhauer C. Approximation of a Mathematical Aging Function for Latent Fingerprint Traces Based on First Experiments Using a Chromatic White Light (CWL) Sensor and the Binary Pixel Aging Feature. In: Decker BD, Lapon J, Naessens V, Uhl A, editors. Communications and Multimedia Security: 12th IFIP TC 6 / TC 11 International Conference, CMS 2011, Ghent, Belgium, October 19-21,2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011:59–71.

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. Worried About Arsenic In Your Baby’s Rice Cereal? There Are Other Foods That Can Provide Essential Iron. [homepage on the Internet] IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/worried-about-arsenic-your-baby-s-rice-cereal-there-are-other-foods-can-provide/.

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. Attack Warning: Lack of System Architecture Contributes to Major Development Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kweider NM. Reading comprehension among Arabic Heritage Language Learners and the Simple View of Reading model. 2014.

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

Wagner J. With Loss and an Injury, It’s Just Another Day for the Mets. New York Times. June 28, 2017:B11.

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