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

Henderson GM. Climate. Caving in to new chronologies. Science. 2006 Aug 4;313(5787):620–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

DeKosky ST, Marek K. Looking backward to move forward: early detection of neurodegenerative disorders. Science. 2003 Oct 31;302(5646):830–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alford RA, Dixon PM, Pechmann JH. Ecology. Global amphibian population declines. Nature. 2001 Aug 2;412(6846):499–500.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ireland TR, Holden P, Norman MD, Clarke J. Isotopic enhancements of 17O and 18O from solar wind particles in the lunar regolith. Nature. 2006 Apr 6;440(7085):776–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murray A. The Complete Software Project Manager. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Barnaghi P, Moessner K, Presser M, Meissner S, editors. Smart Sensing and Context: 4th European Conference, EuroSSC 2009, Guildford, UK, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 5741).

A chapter in an edited book

Sibila O, Ferrer M, Torres A. Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Treatment in Community-Acquired Pneumonia. In: Vincent JL, editor. Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 53–63.

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

O`Callaghan J. Watch Live As Solar Impulse Ends Its Sun-Powered Flight Around The World [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-live-as-solar-impulse-ends-its-sunpowered-flight-around-the-world/

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: Management of Interdependencies between Programs Supporting 2020 Census. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Jun. Report No.: GAO-16-723T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Malkus N. Beneath the district averages: Intradistrict differences in teacher compensation expenditures [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Leshy JD, Squillace M. The Endangered Antiquities Act. New York Times. 2017 Mar 31;A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Henderson 2006).
This sentence cites two references (DeKosky and Marek 2003; Henderson 2006).

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

Two authors: (DeKosky and Marek 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ireland et al. 2006)

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