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

Goedert M. NEURODEGENERATION. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein. Science 2015;349:1255555.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pellerin L, Magistretti PJ. Neuroscience. Let there be (NADH) light. Science 2004;305:50–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pearson PD, Moje E, Greenleaf C. Literacy and science: each in the service of the other. Science 2010;328:459–63.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pang P-C, Chiu PCN, Lee C-L, Chang L-Y, Panico M, Morris HR, et al. Human sperm binding is mediated by the sialyl-Lewis(x) oligosaccharide on the zona pellucida. Science 2011;333:1761–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zonnenshain A, Stauber S. Managing and Engineering Complex Technological Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Peris-Ortiz M, Merigó-Lindahl JM, eds. Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Culture: An Institutional Perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrari A, Fantechi A, Gnesi S. Lessons Learnt from the Adoption of Formal Model-Based Development. In: Goodloe AE, Person S, eds. NASA Formal Methods: 4th International Symposium, NFM 2012, Norfolk, VA, USA, April 3-5, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012:24–38. (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. We Can Avoid Mass Extinction, But Time Is Running Out [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/we-can-avoid-mass-extinction-time-running-out/

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. The Post-Implementation Review. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Jul. Report No.: 112925.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Matheny AL. Home gardener preferences, perceptions, knowledge and behaviors associated with pest management strategies and information acquisition [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Sisario B. The Chef Providing a Comic Garnish to the Grammys. New York Times. 2017;C2.

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

Research and Writing Guides