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

Duyk G. Attrition and translation. Science. 2003 Oct 24;302(5645):603–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mappes J, Lindström L. Ecology. How did the cuckoo get its polymorphic plumage? Science. 2012 Aug 3;337(6094):532–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bayley PJ, Frascino JC, Squire LR. Robust habit learning in the absence of awareness and independent of the medial temporal lobe. Nature. 2005 Jul 28;436(7050):550–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rutter J, Reick M, Wu LC, McKnight SL. Regulation of clock and NPAS2 DNA binding by the redox state of NAD cofactors. Science. 2001 Jul 20;293(5529):510–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

French M, Szepesvári C, Rogers E. Performance of Nonlinear Approximate Adaptive Controllers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Padmanabhan T, editor. Astronomy in India: A Historical Perspective. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014. X, 152 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Séguy I, Buchet L. Establishing a Reference Population. In: Buchet L, editor. Handbook of Palaeodemography. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 53–81. (INED Population Studies).

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

Hale T. This “Invisible Television” Screen Looks Incredible [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-invisible-television-screen-looks-incredible/

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. Information and Technology Management: Achieving Sustained and Focused Governmentwide Leadership. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Apr. Report No.: GAO-01-583T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Maafi N. Assessment of Volatile Metabolites for In Situ Detection of Fungal Decay of Wood [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2017.

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

Apuzzo M, Risen J. Plan to Revive Waterboarding Faces Obstacles. New York Times. 2016 Nov 28;A1.

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

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