How to format your references using the Journal of Dermatological Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Dermatological Science. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

L. Xue, China: The prizes and pitfalls of progress, Nature 454 (2008) 398–401.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.E. Trumbore, C.I. Czimczik, Geology. An uncertain future for soil carbon, Science 321 (2008) 1455–1456.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.S.M. Turney, R.G. Roberts, Z. Jacobs, Archaeology: progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon dating, Nature 443 (2006) E3; discussion E4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Fukatsu, M. Kondo, M. Okamura, M. Yoshida, S. Masaoka, Electrochemical response of metal complexes in homogeneous solution under photoirradiation, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Walker, Happy-People-Pills For All, Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

V.A. Erdmann, J. Barciszewski, eds., RNA Technologies and Their Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Rischpater, D. Zucker, Beginning Qt Development, in: D. Zucker (Ed.), Beginning Nokia Apps Development: Qt and HTML5 for Symbian and MeeGo, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2010: pp. 59–86.

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 Journal of Dermatological Science.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Sweden Won’t Become Carbon-Free If It Ditches Its Nuclear Power, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Strategic Bombers: B-2 Program Status and Current Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.J. Long, Comparison of health-promoting lifestyles in adult patients with and without primary care provider continuity, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Supreme Court Rebuffs a Challenge to New York’s Way of Picking Its Judges, New York Times (2008) B1.

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	Journal of Dermatological Science
Abbreviation	J. Dermatol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0923-1811
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Dermatology