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

Fuchs ERH. Economics. Global manufacturing and the future of technology. Science. 2014 Aug;345(6196):519–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iwamoto H, Yagi N. The molecular trigger for high-speed wing beats in a bee. Science. 2013 Sep;341(6151):1243–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dharmasiri N, Dharmasiri S, Estelle M. The F-box protein TIR1 is an auxin receptor. Nature. 2005 May;435(7041):441–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schaal B, Coureaud G, Langlois D, Giniès C, Sémon E, Perrier G. Chemical and behavioural characterization of the rabbit mammary pheromone. Nature. 2003 Jul;424(6944):68–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes A. Extractive Metallurgy 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Chau M, Wang GA, Zheng X, Chen H, Zeng D, Mao W, editors. Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2011, Beijing, China, July 9, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Williams D, Wang M-T, Chang C-H, Ahamed SI, Chu W. Agile Development for the Creation of Proper Human-Computer Interfaces for the Elderly. In: Bodine C, Helal S, Gu T, Mokhtari M, editors. Smart Homes and Health Telematics: 12th International Conference, ICOST 2014, Denver, CO, USA, June 25-27, 2014, Revised Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 29–38.

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

Hale T. Rare Marine Fossils Discovered In World War I Trenches [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Apr

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. Air Force Contracting: Contracting for Maintenance of Training Aircraft at Columbus Air Force Base. 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

Adams AW. Shepherd leadership of Church of God pastors and how this relates to ministerial effectiveness. 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

Billard M. Scouting Report. New York Times. 2010 Jul;E5.

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