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

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

Butler D. The battle of Tugen Hills. Nature. 2001;410(6828):508-509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fugmann SD, Schatz DG. Immunology. One AID to unite them all. Science. 2002;295(5558):1244-1245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martianov I, Viville S, Davidson I. RNA polymerase II transcription in murine cells lacking the TATA binding protein. Science. 2002;298(5595):1036-1039.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yoon A, Peng G, Brandenburger Y, et al. Impaired control of IRES-mediated translation in X-linked dyskeratosis congenita. Science. 2006;312(5775):902-906.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lahdenmäki T, Leach M. Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Luan S, ed. Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang L. Multi-Modal Machine Attention: Sound Localization and Visual-Auditory Signal Synchronization. In: Hommel G, Huanye S, eds. Human Interaction with Machines: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop Held at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, March 15–16, 2005. Springer Netherlands; 2006:43-50.

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 the American Academy of Dermatology.

Blog post

Fang J. Woman Receives 3D Printed Titanium Skull Implant. IFLScience. June 8, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/young-woman-receives-3d-printed-titanium-skull-implant/

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. Federal Motor Vehicles: Agencies’ Progress in Meeting Expenditure Control Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gates DA. Best Practices and Strategies for Financial Literacy in Faith-Based Organizations. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 2017.

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

Oestreich JR. Still Pushing Boundaries, Relentlessly. New York Times. October 8, 2017:C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 the American Academy of Dermatology
Abbreviation	J. Am. Acad. Dermatol.
ISSN (print)	0190-9622
Scope	Dermatology