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

McAuley P. Danger--hard hack area. Nature. 404(6773), 21 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsodyks M, Gilbert C. Neural networks and perceptual learning. Nature. 431(7010), 775–781 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Donner SD, Kandlikar M, Zerriffi H. Environment and development. Preparing to manage climate change financing. Science. 334(6058), 908–909 (2011).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pascual O, Casper KB, Kubera C, et al. Astrocytic purinergic signaling coordinates synaptic networks. Science. 310(5745), 113–116 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minelli M, Chambers M, Dhiraj A. Big Data, Big Analytics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ortiz G, Tran C, editors. Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: Workshops of ESOCC 2014, Manchester, UK, September 2-4, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kurtz J, Wortman B. Up and Down the Stack with a POST. In: ASP.NET Web API 2: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish. Wortman B (Ed.), Apress, Berkeley, CA, 49–115 (2014).

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

Evans K. The Edge Of The Universe Is Closer Than Scientists Previously Thought. IFLScience (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. Reagan National Airport: Limited Opportunities to Improve Airlines’ Compliance with Noise Abatement Procedures. 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

Hertzman R. Yemen’s migrant networks as critical factor in political opposition to the Imamate. (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

Kelly K, Appelbaum B. Yellen and Trump Aide Are Said to Be on Shortlist for New Leader of the Fed. New York Times, A20 (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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