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

Dalton R. Dinosaur curators plot mating game. Nature 420(6913), 259 (2002).

A journal article with 2 authors

Alle H, Geiger JRP. Combined analog and action potential coding in hippocampal mossy fibers. Science 311(5765), 1290–1293 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

Averill C, Turner BL, Finzi AC. Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage. Nature 505(7484), 543–545 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Alkuraya FS, Saadi I, Lund JJ, Turbe-Doan A, Morton CC, Maas RL. SUMO1 haploinsufficiency leads to cleft lip and palate. Science 313(5794), 1751 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldi P, Frasconi P, Smyth P. Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2002).

An edited book

Mavroudis C, Backer CL (Eds.). Atlas of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. (1st ed. 2016 Edition). Springer, London (2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Letfullin RR, George TF. Modeling Nanoparticle Optics. In: Computational Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology: Lectures with Computer Practicums. George TF (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 241–306 (2016).

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

Hale T. ‘What’s The Absolute Farthest You Can Get On Planet Earth From Any Other Human Beings?’ (2016).

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. Biotechnology: Analysis of Federally Funded Research, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1986).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kraka EK. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, (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

Chira S. Is This How a Woman Could Win?, (2017).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

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