How to format your references using the JAMA Dermatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JAMA 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

Harris H. Tumour suppression: putting on the brakes. Nature. 2004;427(6971):201.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shin DS, Tainer JA. Molecular biology: DNA repair without flipping out. Nature. 2015;527(7577):168-169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Freeman C, Ostle N, Kang H. An enzymic “latch” on a global carbon store. Nature. 2001;409(6817):149.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Roos CF, Chwalla M, Kim K, Riebe M, Blatt R. “Designer atoms” for quantum metrology. Nature. 2006;443(7109):316-319.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacClancy J. Anthropology in the Public Arena. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Horváth Z, Zsók V, Butterfield A, eds. Implementation and Application of Functional Languages: 18th International Symposium, IFL 2006, Budapest, Hungary, September 4-6, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Vol 4449. Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Schneider JK. Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensors. In: Ratha NK, Govindaraju V, eds. Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems. Springer; 2008:63-74.

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 JAMA Dermatology.

Blog post

Andrew E. NASA Scientists Believe We Will Find Extraterrestrial Life Within The Next 20 Years. IFLScience. April 9, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-scientists-think-we-will-find-extraterrestrial-life-within-next-20-years/

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. Effect of Personnel Reform on the Federal Aviation Administration’s Budget. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Charles JG. African American Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Learning in Mathematics: A Case Study of Parent-Teacher Collaboration. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral 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

Murphy MJO. 130 Years Ago: ‘War and Peace’ Finally Published in English. New York Times. January 29, 2016:C29.

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	JAMA Dermatology
Abbreviation	JAMA Dermatol.
ISSN (print)	2168-6068
ISSN (online)	2168-6084
Scope	Dermatology