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

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

Smaglik P. The joy of the lab. Nature 2004;431:227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Andreae MO, Ramanathan V. Climate change. Climate’s dark forcings. Science 2013;340:280–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Draghici C, Wang T, Spiegel DA. Concise total synthesis of glucosepane. Science 2015;350:294–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Barnosky AD, Matzke N, Tomiya S, Wogan GOU, Swartz B, Quental TB, et al. Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived? Nature 2011;471:51–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saccone C, Pesole G. Handbook of Comparative Genomics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Kunkel JM, Balaji P, Dongarra J, editors. High Performance Computing: 31st International Conference, ISC High Performance 2016, Frankfurt, Germany, June 19-23, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 9697. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Larsen RA. Flucytosine. In: Kauffman CA, Pappas PG, Sobel JD, Dismukes WE, editors. Essentials of Clinical Mycology, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 57–60.

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 Symposium Proceedings.

Blog post

Fang J. New Layer of Rock Discovered in Earth’s Mantle. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/insanely-stiff-layer-rock-discovered-earths-mantle/ (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

Government Accountability Office. Air Force Assessment of the Joint Strike Fighter’s Aerial Refueling Method. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Selis AH. Holding the center: How one Jewish day school negotiates differences in a pluralistic community. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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

Brantley B. Broadway’s Savior Meets His Match. New York Times 2016:C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Andreae and Ramanathan, 2013; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Andreae and Ramanathan, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Barnosky et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium Proceedings
Abbreviation	J. Investig. Dermatol. Symp. Proc.
ISSN (print)	1087-0024
Scope	Biotechnology Cell Biology Molecular Biology General Medicine Dermatology