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

Casassus B. MAD COW DISEASE: New Recruits for French Prion Research. Science. 2000 Dec;290(5497):1671a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gonnermann HM, Manga M. Explosive volcanism may not be an inevitable consequence of magma fragmentation. Nature. 2003 Nov;426(6965):432–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bannard O, Kraman M, Fearon DT. Secondary replicative function of CD8+ T cells that had developed an effector phenotype. Science. 2009 Jan;323(5913):505–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Poinar H, Fiedel S, King CE, Devault AM, Bos K, Kuch M, et al. Comment on “DNA from pre-Clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America.” Science. 2009 Jul;325(5937):148; author reply 148.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walter RJ. Practical Compliance with the EPA Risk Management Program. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1998.

An edited book

Eastwood M, Miller W, editors. Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Grangier D, Monay F, Bengio S. Learning to Retrieve Images from Text Queries with a Discriminative Model. In: Marchand-Maillet S, Bruno E, Nürnberger A, Detyniecki M, editors. Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: User, Context, and Feedback: 4th International Workshop, AMR 2006, Geneva, Switzerland, July 27-28, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007; pp 42–56.

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

Andrew D. Watch A Red-Hot Ball Of Nickel Melt A Bowl Of Jello From The Inside Out [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Aug

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: Earned Value Management Implementation across Major Spaceflight Projects Is Uneven. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown LT. Identifying potential co-repressors associated with dexamethasone-induced repression of the MUC5AC gene. 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

Kishkovsky S. Purge Victims Remembered In Moscow Rite. New York Times. 2007 Oct;A15.

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