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

Padyukov L. Journal club. A human geneticist explores genetic diversity in Asia. Nature 2010;464:653.

A journal article with 2 authors

Myerson AS, Trout BL. Chemistry. Nucleation from solution. Science 2013;341:855–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reichardt BW, Unger F, Vazirani U. Classical command of quantum systems. Nature 2013;496:456–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huang Z-T, Li Y-F, Jiang P-K, et al. Long-term intensive management increased carbon occluded in phytolith (PhytOC) in bamboo forest soils. Sci Rep 2014;4:3602.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bojar RM. Manual of Perioperative Care in Adult Cardiac Surgery. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Schoenberger SP, Katsikis PD, Pulendran B, editors. Crossroads between Innate and Adaptive Immunity II. Vol 633. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Elguebaly T, Bouguila N. A Novel Method for Scene Categorization Using an Improved Visual Vocabulary Approach. In: Bouchachia A, editor. Adaptive and Intelligent Systems: Third International Conference, ICAIS 2014, Bournemouth, UK, September 8-10, 2014. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014:29–39.

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

Luntz S. Milky Way Placed Within a “Council of Giant Galaxies.” [homepage on the Internet] IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/milky-way-placed-within-“council-giant-galaxies”/.

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. Computers in Government: We Couldn’t Do Without Them. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yang Y. Statistical Analysis of cDNA Microarrays: A Systematic Approach to Identify MTF-1 Mediated Gene Expression Profile in Response to Cadmium. 2003.

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

Hodara S. Where Medieval Armor Meets the Aquatic. New York Times. September 22, 2013:WE9.

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

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