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

Assad JA. Neuroscience: Updating views of visual updating. Nature. 2014;507(7493):434–5

A journal article with 2 authors

DeMeo FE, Carry B. Solar System evolution from compositional mapping of the asteroid belt. Nature. 2014;505(7485):629–34

A journal article with 3 authors

Yi C, Wei S, Hendrey G. Warming climate extends dryness-controlled areas of terrestrial carbon sequestration. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:5472

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li D, Yan Z, Lu L, Jiang H, Wang W. Pleiotropy of the de novo-originated gene MDF1. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:7280

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Malley C. Bonds Without Borders. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Biba M, Xhafa F, editors. Learning Structure and Schemas from Documents. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Fabijan A, Olsson HH, Bosch J. The Lack of Sharing of Customer Data in Large Software Organizations: Challenges and Implications. In: Sharp H, Hall T, editors. Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming: 17th International Conference, XP 2016, Edinburgh, UK, May 24-27, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 39–52

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

Hamilton K. How Trees Communicate Via A Wood Wide Web [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-trees-communicate-via-a-wood-wide-web/

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. NASA: Preliminary Observations on Major Acquisition Projects and Management Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Feb Report No.: GAO-16-461T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Copeland EJ. A grant proposal for individuals with severe mental illness [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Order Rethinking Of eBay Case. New York Times. 2006;C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Assad 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Assad 2014; DeMeo and Carry 2014).

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

Two authors: (DeMeo and Carry 2014)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

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

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