How to format your references using the Archives of Dermatological Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Dermatological Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kondro W (2000) CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES: Funding of 2000 Slots Sets Off Musical Chairs. Science 288:2112

A journal article with 2 authors

Cook-Deegan RM, McCormack SJ (2001) Intellectual property. Patents, secrecy, and DNA. Science 293:217

A journal article with 3 authors

McCloskey J, Nalbant SS, Steacy S (2005) Indonesian earthquake: earthquake risk from co-seismic stress. Nature 434:291

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Prakriya M, Feske S, Gwack Y, et al (2006) Orai1 is an essential pore subunit of the CRAC channel. Nature 443:230–233

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Han CC, Akcasu AZ (2011) Scattering and Dynamics of Polymers. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Hess F, Pauli S, Pohst M (2006) Algorithmic Number Theory: 7th International Symposium, ANTS-VII, Berlin, Germany, July 23-28, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Naldi MC, de Carvalho ACPLF, Campell RJGB, Hruschka ER (2008) Genetic Clustering for Data Mining. In: Maimon O, Rokach L (eds) Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 113–132

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 Archives of Dermatological Research.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Neanderthal Genes May Not Actually Be That Harmful To Humans. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/neanderthal-genes-may-not-actually-harmful-humans/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1998) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Potential for Widespread Disruption Calls for Strong Leadership and Partnerships. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Anderson E (2017) Predicting Home Purchase Location in DC: An Intersectional Approach. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Pilon M (2012) Coaching The Kayakers On 2 Wheels. New York Times B17

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	Archives of Dermatological Research
Abbreviation	Arch. Derm. Res.
ISSN (print)	0340-3696
ISSN (online)	1432-069X
Scope	General Medicine Dermatology