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

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

Marley MS. Planetary science. Probing an extrasolar planet. Science 2013;339:1393–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cowman AF, Crabb BS. The Plasmodium falciparum genome--a blueprint for erythrocyte invasion. Science 2002;298:126–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wisniewski W, Patschger M, Rüssel C. Viscous fingering and dendritic growth of surface crystallized Sr2TiSi2O8 fresnoite. Sci Rep 2013;3:3558.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Polacek N, Gaynor M, Yassin A, Mankin AS. Ribosomal peptidyl transferase can withstand mutations at the putative catalytic nucleotide. Nature 2001;411:498–501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tadros TF. Colloids in Paints. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Milazzo P, Varró D, Wimmer M, editors. Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations: STAF 2016 Collocated Workshops: DataMod, GCM, HOFM, MELO, SEMS, VeryComp, Vienna Austria, July 4-8, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 9946. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Braun AG, Lettnin DV, Gerlach J, Rosenstiel W. Automated Conversion of SystemC Fixed-Point Data Types. In: Glesner M, Reis R, Indrusiak L, Mooney V, Eveking H, editors. VLSI-SOC: From Systems to Chips: IFIP TC 10/ WG 10.5 Twelfth International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration of System on Chip (VLSI-SoC 2003), December 1–3, 2003, Darmstadt, Germany, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006, p. 55–72.

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 Symposium Proceedings.

Blog post

Luntz S. Ebola Vaccine Passes First Human Trial. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ebola-vaccine-passes-first-human-trial/ (accessed October 30, 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. Assistance Provided for the Construction of Higher Education Academic Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kay K. A support group for older adult males struggling with depression: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

Goldstein J. Scrutiny of Decorated Detective Raises Specter of Lying as Routine. New York Times 2017:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marley, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Cowman and Crabb, 2002; Marley, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Cowman and Crabb, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Polacek et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium Proceedings
Abbreviation	J. Investig. Dermatol. Symp. Proc.
ISSN (print)	1087-0024
Scope	Biotechnology Cell Biology Molecular Biology General Medicine Dermatology