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

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

[1]

Svoboda P. Journal club. A molecular biologist explores how new genomic tools can be applied to wild animals. Nature 2010;465:529.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Saunders MA, Lea AS. Large contribution of sea surface warming to recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity. Nature 2008;451:557–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gahan LJ, Gould F, Heckel DG. Identification of a gene associated with Bt resistance in Heliothis virescens. Science 2001;293:857–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mereuta L, Roy M, Asandei A, Lee JK, Park Y, Andricioaei I, et al. Slowing down single-molecule trafficking through a protein nanopore reveals intermediates for peptide translocation. Sci Rep 2014;4:3885.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Harper C. Analytic Methods in Physics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Okada A, Buckingham Shum SJ, Sherborne T, editors. Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. 2nd ed. 2014. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hall MJW, Reginatto M. Thermodynamics and Mixtures on Configuration Space. In: Reginatto M, editor. Ensembles on Configuration Space: Classical, Quantum, and Beyond, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 61–81.

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 Supplement.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Solar Prominence Looks Just Like The Eiffel Tower. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-prominence-looks-eiffel-tower/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. National Airspace System: Status of FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Curry M. Students’ perceptions of entrepreneurship at a historically black university in central Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 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]

Saslow L. Districts Pursue School-Closing Plans to Save Money. New York Times 2009:LI5.

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 Supplement
Abbreviation	J. Derm. Sci. Suppl.
ISSN (print)	1574-0757
Scope	Dermatology