How to format your references using the Australian Dental Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Dental Journal (ADJ). 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

Bucksbaum PH. Chemistry. The first femtosecond in the life of a chemical reaction. Science 2006;312:373–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rieux-Laucat F, Casanova J-L. Immunology. Autoimmunity by haploinsufficiency. Science 2014;345:1560–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu H, Gao J, Zhao J. From boron cluster to two-dimensional boron sheet on Cu(111) surface: growth mechanism and hole formation. Sci Rep 2013;3:3238.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sideris PJ, Nielsen UG, Gan Z, Grey CP. Mg/Al ordering in layered double hydroxides revealed by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy. Science 2008;321:113–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ananthakrishnan AN, Xavier RJ, Podolsky DK. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Olson EA, Stepp JR, eds. Plants and Health: New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant Nexus. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. (Ethnobiology).

A chapter in an edited book

Badiqué E. Information and Communication Technologies in the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme. In: Levi A, Savaş E, Yenigün H, Balcısoy S, Saygın Y, eds. Computer and Information Sciences – ISCIS 2006: 21th International Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, November 1-3, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006:36–36. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Australian Dental Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. Killing Whales For Science: Japan Is Sent Back To The Drawing Board [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/killing-whales-science-japan-sent-back-drawing-board/

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. Pipeline Safety: Status of Improving Oversight of the Pipeline Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Mar. Report No.: GAO-02-517T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tucker MT. Structure-property stress state dependent relationships under varying strain rates [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2009.

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

Khodarkovsky M. Russia’s age-old identity question. New York Times. 2017;0.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Australian Dental Journal
ISSN (print)	0045-0421
ISSN (online)	1834-7819
Scope