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

Pardoll DM. Immunology. Stress, NK receptors, and immune surveillance. Science. 2001;294(5542):534-536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neronov A, Vovk I. Evidence for strong extragalactic magnetic fields from Fermi observations of TeV blazars. Science. 2010;328(5974):73-75.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conard NJ, Grootes PM, Smith FH. Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd. Nature. 2004;430(6996):198-201.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Najiminaini M, Vasefi F, Kaminska B, Carson JJL. Nanohole-array-based device for 2D snapshot multispectral imaging. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2589.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kula G, Raab M, Stahn S. Beyond Smart Beta. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Eisenbarth GS, ed. Immunoendocrinology: Scientific and Clinical Aspects. Humana Press; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu S, Gu X. Gene Network: Model, Dynamics and Simulation. In: Wang L, ed. Computing and Combinatorics: 11th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2005 Kunming, China, August 16–19, 2005 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2005:12-21.

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

Andrew E. Ten Things You Really Should Know About Ebola. IFLScience. Published August 1, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ten-things-you-really-should-know-about-ebola/

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. Army Maintenance: More Effective Implementation of Maintenance Expenditure Limits Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fearrington ND. The Relationship between Fathers’ Pre -Natal Involvement with the Mother and Post -Natal Involvement with the Child(Ren). Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2008.

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

Markoff J, Rosenberg M. China’s Intelligent Weaponry Gets Smarter. New York Times. February 3, 2017:BU1.

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

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