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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Dermatology. 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

Roos DS. Genetics. Themes and variations in apicomplexan parasite biology. Science. 2005 Jul 1;309(5731):72–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Takano Y, Ukezono M. An experimental task to examine the mirror system in rats. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct 17;4:6652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kühl G, Briggs DEG, Rust J. A great-appendage arthropod with a radial mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany. Science. 2009 Feb 6;323(5915):771–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yamashiro C, Sasaki K, Yabuta Y, Kojima Y, Nakamura T, Okamoto I, et al. Generation of human oogonia from induced pluripotent stem cells in vitro. Science. 2018 Oct 19;362(6412):356–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kim YH. Sound Propagation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Stone PG, Brough D, editors. Managing, Using, and Interpreting Hadrian’s Wall as World Heritage. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. XII, 139 p. 30 illus. in color. (SpringerBriefs in Archaeology; vol. 2).

A chapter in an edited book

Yamada S, Tamura Y. Stochastic Differential Equation Models for OSS Reliability Analysis. In: Tamura Y, editor. OSS Reliability Measurement and Assessment. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 27–32. (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering).

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 Journal of Dermatology.

Blog post

Davis J. The Majority Of Life On Earth Is Already Feeling The Effects Of Climate Change. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. National Airspace System: Issues in Allocating Costs for Air Traffic Services to DOD and Other Users. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Apr. Report No.: RCED-97-106.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Valencia GM. A Phenomenological Study of Adults Earning a Graduate Degree after Age 60 [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2015.

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

Crow K. Gently, Neighbors Want Statue to Find a Home. New York Times. 2002 Apr 28;144.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Journal of Dermatology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Dermatol.
ISSN (print)	0019-5154
ISSN (online)	1998-3611
Scope	Dermatology