How to format your references using the Journal of Investigative Dermatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Investigative 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	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

Feldbaum C. Biotechnology. Some history should be repeated. Science. 2002;295(5557):975

A journal article with 2 authors

Hedwig B, Poulet JFA. Complex auditory behaviour emerges from simple reactive steering. Nature. 2004;430(7001):781–5

A journal article with 3 authors

Jacobs SS, Giulivi CF, Mele PA. Freshening of the Ross Sea during the late 20th century. Science. 2002;297(5580):386–9

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sorefan K, Girin T, Liljegren SJ, Ljung K, Robles P, Galván-Ampudia CS, et al. A regulated auxin minimum is required for seed dispersal in Arabidopsis. Nature. 2009;459(7246):583–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang Z-G. Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Whitacre DM, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Teixeira AP, Guedes Soares C. Fundamentals of Reliability. In: de Souza GFM, editor. Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis. London: Springer; 2012. p. 91–122

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 Investigative Dermatology.

Blog post

Hale T. Take This Test To See How You Perceive Color [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/diy-experiment-shows-how-you-perceive-color/

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 Technology: U.S. Postal Service Needs to Strengthen System Acquisition and Management Capabilities to Improve Its Intelligent Mail Full Service Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Oct Report No.: GAO-10-145.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ortega R. Effects of cultural and linguistic differences in breast cancer screening behaviors among elderly Latina women [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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

Walsh MW. A Puerto Rican Utility Makes Progress Toward a Debt Deal. New York Times. 2015;B2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Feldbaum 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Feldbaum 2002; Hedwig and Poulet 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hedwig and Poulet 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sorefan et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Investigative Dermatology
Abbreviation	J. Invest. Dermatol.
ISSN (print)	0022-202X
ISSN (online)	1523-1747
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology Dermatology