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

Chien KR. Regenerative medicine and human models of human disease. Nature. 2008 May;453(7193):302–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phair RD, Misteli T. High mobility of proteins in the mammalian cell nucleus. Nature. 2000 Apr;404(6778):604–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Causier B, Kieffer M, Davies B. Plant biology. MADS-box genes reach maturity. Science. 2002 Apr;296(5566):275–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Whittaker JM, Müller RD, Leitchenkov G, Stagg H, Sdrolias M, Gaina C, et al. Major Australian-Antarctic plate reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor bend time. Science. 2007 Oct;318(5847):83–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nguyen T. Investing in the High Yield Municipal Market. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Balandin S, Moltchanov D, Koucheryavy Y, editors. Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking: 9th International Conference, NEW2AN 2009 and Second Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 15-18, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Platen E, Bruti-Liberati N. Introduction to Scenario Simulation. In: Bruti-Liberati N, editor. Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations with Jumps in Finance. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 233–71.

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. Students Create 3D-Printed Wheelchair For Disabled Kitten [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/students-create-3d-printed-wheelchair-disabled-kitten/

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. District of Columbia Public Schools: Status of Fiscal Year 1998 Roof Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moyer AS. The A+ Schools Program and School Improvement. 2012

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

Cooper M. A Red State’s Cultural Blues. New York Times. 2017 Apr;C1.

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

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