How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology citation style

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

Tegmark M. Measuring spacetime: from the big bang to black holes. Science. 2002 May 24;296(5572):1427–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Regev A, Shapiro E. Cells as computation. Nature. 2002 Sep 26;419(6905):343.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seidenberg MS, MacDonald MC, Saffran JR. Neuroscience. Does grammar start where statistics stop? Science. 2002 Oct 18;298(5593):553–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vandergoes MJ, Newnham RM, Preusser F, Hendy CH, Lowell TV, Fitzsimons SJ, et al. Regional insolation forcing of late Quaternary climate change in the Southern Hemisphere. Nature. 2005 Jul 14;436(7048):242–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lundberg U, Cooper CL. The Science of Occupational Health. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Lugmayr A, editor. Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry: 7th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2014, Sydney, Australia, December 2014, Revised Papers. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. IX, 139 p. 29 illus. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 217).

A chapter in an edited book

Nachtigall W, Wisser A. STYLING AND DESIGN. In: Wisser A, editor. Bionics by Examples: 250 Scenarios from Classical to Modern Times. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 87–95.

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, Venereology and Leprology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. The Sky Is Alive With The Sound Of Stars [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-sky-is-alive-with-the-sound-of-stars/

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. Small Business Innovation Research: Change in Program Eligibility Has Had Little Impact. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Nov. Report No.: GAO-15-68.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Paulone S. Mergers and Acquisitions: Examining Managerial Strategy Connection to Post Transaction Accounting Measures [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2013.

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

Rothenberg B. Tricky Draw, and Tricky Hip, Stand in Way of Murray’s Title Defense. New York Times. 2017 Jun 30;D2.

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, Venereology and Leprology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Dermatol. Venereol. Leprol.
ISSN (print)	0378-6323
ISSN (online)	0973-3922
Scope	Dermatology Infectious Diseases