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

Habib S. Quantum physics. No mere anarchy. Science. 293(5528), 221–223 (2001).

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowan L, Coontz R. Great balls of fire. Star formation: a Web supplement. Science. 295(5552), 63 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

Sugiyama T, Suzuki H, Takahashi T. Light-induced rapid Ca²⁺ response and MAPK phosphorylation in the cells heterologously expressing human OPN5. Sci. Rep. 4, 5352 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dai P, Mook HA, Aeppli G, Hayden SM, Dogan F. Resonance as a measure of pairing correlations in the high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.6. Nature. 406(6799), 965–968 (2000).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attoh-Okine NO. Big Data and Differential Privacy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gangadharan S. Constraining Designs for Synthesis and Timing Analysis: A Practical Guide to Synopsys Design Constraints (SDC). Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Piaia G. The General Histories of Philosophy in Italy in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century. In: Models of the History of Philosophy: Volume II: From Cartesian Age to Brucker. Santinello G, Piaia G (Eds.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 213–297 (2011).

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

O`Callaghan J. Could Life Survive In The TRAPPIST-1 System? [Internet]. IFLScience (2017). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-life-survive-in-the-trappist1-system/.

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. Highway Safety: Selected Cases of Commercial Drivers with Potentially Disqualifying Impairments. 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

Cherukuri H. 1, 3-Dipolar Reaction of gem-Dicyanoepoxide with a Fluoro-Olefin. (2014).

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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS. Comic Strips Think Pink. New York Times, C3 (2010).

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