How to format your references using the Melanoma Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Melanoma Management. 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

Rabiner L. Computer science. The power of speech. Science. 301(5639), 1494–1495 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

Yasunaga M, Matsumura Y. Role of SLC6A6 in promoting the survival and multidrug resistance of colorectal cancer. Sci. Rep. 4, 4852 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Wojtak R, Hansen SH, Hjorth J. Gravitational redshift of galaxies in clusters as predicted by general relativity. Nature. 477(7366), 567–569 (2011).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gorthi A, Romero JC, Loranc E, et al. EWS-FLI1 increases transcription to cause R-loops and block BRCA1 repair in Ewing sarcoma. Nature. 555(7696), 387–391 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fitschen K. Building Reliable Trading Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ischebeck F. Ideals and Reality: Projective Modules and Number of Generators of Ideals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Leitgeb N. Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity. In: Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems: Volume 5, Health Effects of Cell Phone Radiation. Lin JC (Ed.), Springer, New York, NY, 167–197 (2009).

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 Melanoma Management.

Blog post

Andrew E. This Insect Spits Poop-Smelling Chemicals into Predators’ Mouths [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/insect-spits-poop-smelling-chemicals-predators-mouths/.

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. Services to Indian Head Start Grantees Under a Special Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

So RJ. Coolie democracy: U.S.-China political and literary exchange, 1925-1955. (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

Faludi S. How Hillary Clinton Met Satan. New York Times, SR5 (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Melanoma Management
Abbreviation	Melanoma Manag.
ISSN (print)	2045-0885
Scope	Dermatology Oncology