How to format your references using the Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
[1]
D. Wineland, Norman Ramsey (1915-2011), Nature 480 (2011) 182.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
H. Brody, I. Miko, Lenses on biology, Nature 483 (2012) S1.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
H. Szemenyei, M. Hannon, J.A. Long, TOPLESS mediates auxin-dependent transcriptional repression during Arabidopsis embryogenesis, Science 319 (2008) 1384–1386.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
T.J. Allison, C.C. Winter, J.J. Fournié, M. Bonneville, D.N. Garboczi, Structure of a human gammadelta T-cell antigen receptor, Nature 411 (2001) 820–824.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
D.W. Edwards, Risk Management in Trading, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.
An edited book
[1]
P. Gaj, A. Kwiecień, P. Stera, eds., Computer Networks: 23rd International Conference, CN 2016, Brunów, Poland, June 14-17, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
A.C. Edwards, R.L. Walker, P. Maskell, C.A. Watson, R.M. Rees, E.A. Stockdale, O.G.G. Knox, Improving Bioavailability of Phosphate Rock for Organic Farming, in: E. Lichtfouse (Ed.), Genetic Engineering, Biofertilisation, Soil Quality and Organic Farming, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 99–117.

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 Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy.

Blog post
[1]
D. Andrew, 7 Psychological Phrases To Know If You’re Dating A Narcissist, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/7-psychological-phrases-to-know-if-youre-dating-a-narcissist/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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
[1]
Government Accountability Office, Mass Transit: Challenges in Evaluating, Overseeing, and Funding Major Transit Projects, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
S.-C. Kim, Defiant institutionalization: Democratization and social movements in South Korea, 1984–2002, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2008.

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
[1]
J. Koblin, Schwarzenegger Won’t Return to ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’ New York Times (2017) B2.

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 titlePhotodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
AbbreviationPhotodiagnosis Photodyn. Ther.
ISSN (print)1572-1000
ScopeBiophysics
Dermatology
Oncology
Pharmacology (medical)

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