How to format your references using the Journal of Investigative Dermatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 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 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

Bennett VC. Geophysics. Probing the mantle past. Science. 2012;335(6072):1051–2

A journal article with 2 authors

Di Noia J, Neuberger MS. Altering the pathway of immunoglobulin hypermutation by inhibiting uracil-DNA glycosylase. Nature. 2002;419(6902):43–8

A journal article with 3 authors

Fromm M, Nedoluha G, Charvát Z. Comment on “Large volcanic aerosol load in the stratosphere linked to Asian monsoon transport.” Science. 2013;339(6120):647

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xiao WD, Zhang YY, Tao L, Aït-Mansour K, Chernichenko KY, Nenajdenko VG, et al. Impact of heterocirculene molecular symmetry upon two-dimensional crystallization. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:5415

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pérez A. Mobile Networks Architecture. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Marcus A, editor. Design, User Experience, and Usability. Health, Learning, Playing, Cultural, and Cross-Cultural User Experience: Second International Conference, DUXU 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Deconinck G, Vanthournout K, Beitollahi H, Qui Z, Duan R, Nauwelaers B, et al. A Robust Semantic Overlay Network for Microgrid Control Applications. In: Lemos R de, Giandomenico FD, Gacek C, Muccini H, Vieira M, editors. Architecting Dependable Systems V. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 101–23

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 Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

Blog post

Fang J. Why Baby Planets Didn’t Just Fall into their Stars [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-baby-planets-didnt-just-fall-their-stars/

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. Ready Reserve Force: Ship Readiness Has Improved, but Other Concerns Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Nov Report No.: NSIAD-95-24.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Davidson WB. High school athletics and the “whole adolescent”: A case study of three urban high schools [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Vecsey G. Tuning Up to Do the Super Bowl Shovel. New York Times. 2010;B9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bennett 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bennett 2012; Di Noia and Neuberger 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Di Noia and Neuberger 2002)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Investigative Dermatology
Abbreviation	J. Invest. Dermatol.
ISSN (print)	0022-202X
ISSN (online)	1523-1747
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology Dermatology