How to format your references using the Skin Pharmacology and Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Skin Pharmacology and Physiology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Ando K. Materials science. Seeking room-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors. Science. 2006 Jun;312(5782):1883–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karki BB, Stixrude LP. Viscosity of MgSiO3 liquid at Earth’s mantle conditions: implications for an early magma ocean. Science. 2010 May;328(5979):740–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aubret F, Shine R, Bonnet X. Evolutionary biology: adaptive developmental plasticity in snakes. Nature. 2004 Sep;431(7006):261–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ding L-X, Wang A-L, Ou Y-N, Li Q, Guo R, Zhao W-X, et al. Hierarchical Pd-Sn alloy nanosheet dendrites: an economical and highly active catalyst for ethanol electrooxidation. Sci Rep. 2013 Feb;3:1181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazer A. Electric Power Planning for Regulated and Deregulated Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Tobimatsu S, Kakigi R, editors. Clinical Applications of Magnetoencephalography. 1st ed. 2016. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferro N, Silvello G. CLEF 15th Birthday: What Can We Learn From Ad Hoc Retrieval? In: Kanoulas E, Lupu M, Clough P, Sanderson M, Hall M, Hanbury A, et al., editors. Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction: 5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014, Sheffield, UK, September 15-18, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014; pp 31–43.

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 Skin Pharmacology and Physiology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. NASA Cements Future Of Manned Space Exploration By Ordering More Launches From SpaceX And Boeing [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Jan

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. Aircraft Preservation: Preserving DOD Aircraft Significant to Aviation History. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Daysal NM. The effects of uninsurance on hospitals and patient health. 2009

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

Schwartz J. Exxon’s Forecasts, Not Past Views, Are at Core of Climate Investigation. New York Times. 2016 Aug;B1.

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	Skin Pharmacology and Physiology
Abbreviation	Skin Pharmacol. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	1660-5527
ISSN (online)	1660-5535
Scope	Physiology General Medicine Dermatology Pharmacology