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

Munro M. The hijacked brain. Nature. 522(7557), S46-7 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Maslin M, Scott J. Carbon trading needs a multi-level approach. Nature. 475(7357), 445–447 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

Freeman C, Ostle N, Kang H. An enzymic “latch” on a global carbon store. Nature. 409(6817), 149 (2001).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tobalske BW, Hedrick TL, Dial KP, Biewener AA. Comparative power curves in bird flight. Nature. 421(6921), 363–366 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vacca JR. Optical Networking Best Practices Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hildebrandt M, Gutwirth S, editors. Profiling the European Citizen: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Prandtstetter M, Ritzinger U, Schmidt P, Ruthmair M. A Variable Neighborhood Search Approach for the Interdependent Lock Scheduling Problem. In: Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 15th European Conference, EvoCOP 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8-10, 2015, Proceedings. Ochoa G, Chicano F (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 36–47 (2015).

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 D. How We Discovered The World’s Oldest Fossils [Internet]. IFLScience (2017). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-we-discovered-the-worlds-oldest-fossils/.

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. NASA Procurement: Agencywide Action Needed to Improve Management of Contract Modifications. 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

Jakubowski JK. Making character education a reality: An investigation of secondary teachers’ perspectives toward implementation. (2013).

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

Wagner J. New Cure for Ailing Mets: Taking 2 Bases. New York Times, B12 (2017).

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

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